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| mtdoc:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 26, 2017, 10:42:08 pm ---While stopping in the middle of the highway to help ducks seems like a dangerously foolish thing to do, I still don't see how this is her fault. --- End quote --- It really depends on where in the road she stopped. If it was in the middle of a blind corner then.... I have to deal with this situation on a regular basis since I live next to a National Park and drive 5 miles on a park road to get home. During tourist season, it's a regular occurrence to come around a curve and find a car stopped in the middle of the road with the passengers taking pictures of wildlife or scenery. ::) |
| james_s:
But it could just as easily be a traffic backup due just to traffic, or a broken down car, or an accident that has not been cleared yet, or a sinkhole or any number of other things. If it really is a blind corner then the speed limit should be set accordingly. Around here corners like that in the highway are rare but where they exist on other roads it's common for there to be a fisheye mirror near the apex of the perimeter or occasionally flashing warning lights that come on when approaching traffic is detected. Even so, it is still the responsibility of every driver to ensure that they are always able to stop in time for any reason. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: evb149 on April 27, 2017, 01:47:02 am ---Yes, certainly it is the fault of any oncoming vehicle that can't safely stop or maneuver to avoid a static obstacle in the road. --- End quote --- That does not give drivers the right to randomly create obstacles on a high speed road! |
| GreyWoolfe:
When I was hired by my present employer, we were called Field Service Engineers. After a few years, our titles were changed to Field Service Technician III and were told not to use the title of Field Service Engineer. It was probably done to avoid some legal dust up as we work strictly with government entities. |
| josecamoessilva:
When I graduated EECS (circa the Paleozoic), I got a letter from the Portuguese "order of engineers" telling me about all the great things they would do for me and all the things I couldn't do without joining. They wanted more in yearly dues than the IEEE, ACM, and AAAI put together (all of which I was a member of), so I never replied. One time some representatives of the order were visiting our school for some even day and on a panel discussion one said that "some of your professors aren't real engineers" (because not members of the order) to which I grabbed a mic and asked a few basic EECS questions. The kind that students knew the answer to. I'll let you guess what happened. >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D Diplomacy, never my forte. |
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