My therapist: Sonic the Pigeon doesn't exist, he can't hurt you
Sonic the Pigeon:
Thats one speedy fly boy.
Coo coo motherfucker!
I don't know what's funnier, that this bird tripped the camera, or that the have such an asinine speed limit in the first place that a common pigeon can trip the camera in the first place....or that they put a speed camera on a residential street to begin with.
Try that shit out here and the camera sensors are getting coated within spray paint within minutes of residents figuring out its there...
30 kmh on a narrow residential road is perfectly fine?
30K/Hr is excruciatingly slow.You're not gonna jeapordize safety letting people go something reasonable. 30 miles per hour is a reasonable limit for a residential street like that. 'Tis the standard over here and it works just fine.
Doing 30mph on tight residentials is dangerous as fuck. 20 is fine.
There's nothing wrong with doing 30 on that road. It's not so cramped that you need to cap people down to something so unreasonably slow. Sight lines are fine, too, it's not like you've got blind corners every ten feet or anything.
And hell, the road I live on is limited at 35, poeple regularly go 60+ down it, and I've never once heard of anyone hitting anyone in the 20+ years I've lived here.
On top of that, German drivers are orders of magnitude better trained than American ones. Licensing requirements are pretty strict there. If Americans can manage it without killing anyone I'm sure Germans can.
30k/hr is unreasonably slow for that street. 30mph is acceptable, if unpleasant. And if your reaction times are so shit that you can't manage 30MPH down that road without killing anyone you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
Lmao please turn in your driver's license
maybe near an hospital, a school and a retirement home
In Canada the limit is 50 KM/h in residential zones unless posted otherwise.
miles or kilometer?
60 km is fine, but I recon 55 is perfectly balanced. No more than 60 or 65 at best imo.
If we're talking bad or narrow roads though, like actually narrow, 30 km is enough, or whichever speed you feel like going, as long as it isn't 1 or over 30.
50 kmh/30 mph is fine on wide roads but the road pictured above has people street parking on both sides with room for one car between them. Again, no reason to be doing 30 there. The posted speed limit is fine.
He's talking 60 mph (100 kmh)
Can't wait for JennyC6 to get his google glass confiscated.
Actual location photographed I believe
Google Maps
There's a lot of houses with direct access to this road and there's an elementary school *somewhat* nearby. Though it's as obvious also right next to a stadium entrance so that's a consideration as well.
shouldnt it be "Pidgeon in Germany"? ho do they know hes from Germany?
You live in America, you have residential streets that are wider than our fucking highways. And it's dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-z-PEzTas
can't be
that's way too much for a residential area
as in "you feel unsafe speeding that much, evne if you are 3fast9furious"
Does he also think that insurance is a massive racket?
I thing that was agentfazexx or something, who said insurance was bulshit because they started charging him more...
...after his wife was involved in two accidents with cyclists or something because she was playing with her smartphone while driving.
No really.
He criticized them for raising prices after that happened.
Fun story, there's an area in VA I was at where the fucking school zone was 45 MPH. School zones in my county are normally at 25 MPH, so to see one at 45 was a bit peculiar to say in the least.
Newer neighborhoods in Germany are built purposely so you have to drive slow with speed bumps and dividers when you enter the village. If you've actually driven there a lot of smaller and older villages have tight streets and hard corners. 30 km/h in residential is just ludicrous, don't try to compare US driving laws with German ones. People here drive like absolute dogshit to begin with.
i don't know why but i have a feeling this is why the US has 3x as many road fatalies as Germany
just a suspicion
You're correct it was Agentfazexx. He was mad because his wife was playing phone games and after getting in multiple accidents and shit they raised his premiums to like 300+ a month and he was bitching about how unfair it was.
If there's a speed camera on a residential street in the UK, it normally means there's been a problem with speeding, on that particular street.
Either people have been injured, or have consistently complained that people drive dangerously fast down that road. It's pretty rare to see one on a residential street.
Americans have this weird habit of exalting German efficiency and praising German-ness and then paradoxically complaining about having to participate in their own society and endure its impositions?
I can't honestly image someone going to the effort of spraying a speed camera's lens because they don't like how slow they have to go, plus are you sure the lens isn't coated with something to cause paint to not stick? That stuff does exist.
that was a magical moment, only rivaled by wickedplayer and postal's ban
People just light up the glass with a lighter or something equally firey until the glass is smoked black
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