german translation:
Jo:Kannst du das riechen? Der fährt unter Droge! Tss
Yehuda: Oh ich glaube nicht dass er fahruntüchtig ist, es sei denn ich kann ihn überholen.
Drugs in traffic is not an good joke. Yehuda, on what are you?
i.e. tired, drugged, drunk, heated discussion (on phone or with passenger(s))
Anything that distracts from the task of safely piloting a vehicle is something that can be considered the same as ‘under the influence’ IMHO
Same goes for cyclists of course!
When cycling or driving, when encountering a threat from another vehicle, whether drunk, aggressive or inattentive, the safest position is behind the threatening vehicle.
Related to today’s strip only by smell, I smelled a vehicle today on my morning bike commute. I was near a shuttle bus wrapped in signage about running on biodiesel. It smelled like french fries. Good thing I’d just eaten breakfast and wasn’t too hungry, otherwise that would have really got me salivating!
I’m surprised places like McDonalds and Burger King aren’t backing bio-diesel just for that reason. Not only would they then have a market for their used deep-fry oil, but the smell it produces will provoke an attack of “the munchies” and increase their sales.
I used to think I was being stupid when I drove high, but since I use the stuff constantly instead of anti-anxiety pills like valium, I found myself driving “impaired” often. That’s when I discovered I was handling everything with as much focus, reaction time, reflexes, and attention as I ever did on a good day before I started using it as medicine, and I rarely have bad days when anxiety overrides me and actually impairs me.
Do we worry about drivers on the doctor prescribed drugs that are so powerful they have to be carefully eased into and off of? It’s time to stop accepting the arbitrary lines of “good” and “bad” as designated by industry via government lobbying and get some damn research done. anecdotal research thus far implies that marijuana does not impair drivers.
Maybe I’m naïve, but I thought Joe and Yehuda were smelling alcohol, implying that the driver had been drinking so much that his breath could be smelled outside the vehicle. Marijuana didn’t occur to me.
Good point Yolanda – My father was kicked in the head when he was trying to arrest some shop-breakers while he was in the Police. He sustained a scar on the meninges that left him with epilepsy. A lifetime of anti-epileptic drugs resulted. Sometimes, when he was particularly stressed he would have a ‘fit’.
From 1950 to when he gave up driving, he had just two crashes as a result. One didn’t involve anybody as he drove into a wall at low speed. The other was at the end of day when he had just taken ownership of a new car. We were stopping to turn left but still at about 30 mph, when the car in front suddenly hit the brakes. My Dad had not noticed the small amber ‘trafficator’ on the nearside (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficators) and had assumed the vehicle wasn’t going to slow down but continue at 40mph straight ahead. After we hit the car, it slewed to the other side of the road (nothing coming!) and we veered to the nearside, ending up in the ditch. That is the only collision with another vehicle my father could report after driving since WWII. (Where he was a driver!) The medicine he was on had recently been reduced and now had to be increased. 6-month-wait without a fit before he could drive again. Like me, If I have a fibrillation attack, I cannot drive for 6-months at least and my meds need to be reviewed. btw – I had my 6-month check-up last week and passed clear. Next time, I will be getting a new ICD/Pace-maker as the 4-year-old battery in this one is nearly spent.
I forgot to add that my Dad stopped driving at about 70 years old!
He had been a Sergeant leading a platoon of drivers. He was driving a DUKW on D-Day and at one point, was appointed as driver to an American General. He was in the lead truck delivering anti-tank ammo to the troops in Arnhem when an officer stopped the convoy and pointed out that a Tiger tank was just over the brow of the hill blasting everything that went over that hill! He was also moved to the Airborne and was on the supply drops to Berlin after WWII.
Yolanda says “I was handling everything with as much focus, reaction time, reflexes, and attention as I ever did on a good day before I started using it…”
Whose opinion was that?
Drunk drivers think they drive fine. Texters think they never miss a thing when they text & drive. Cell phone talkers are positive their driving skills are great.
Well when somebody else swerves into you and you react in busy traffic well enough to find the only open window to escape the accident, even though you’re so high you think you’re screwed, and the whole thing happens as smooth as a nascar race, that’s test enough for me. When similar near-events happens often (local drivers are crap) then that’s proof enough for me.
recently i read an article about this topic – drunk vs high drivers. slightly stoned drivers turned out to be ok but a bit slower compared to sober motorists while slightly drunk ones were taking risks and their reactions were slowed down. mixing the stuff had a very negative effect too.
I’m not sure I’d recognize the smell of marijuana if I encountered it. It’s been about 40 years since I was around anyone who used it (or at least, anyone who used it in my presence) and the smell is long forgotten.
If I could smell it from outside the vehicle I’d definitely suspect impaired driving!
OMG! I’m driving too fast! We’re all gonna die! Hey, far out man. That cyclist just passed me. Dude.
german translation:
Jo:Kannst du das riechen? Der fährt unter Droge! Tss
Yehuda: Oh ich glaube nicht dass er fahruntüchtig ist, es sei denn ich kann ihn überholen.
Drugs in traffic is not an good joke. Yehuda, on what are you?
nice one !
Good one!
I reckon most drivers are impaired, one way or the other
Good one Persia!
i.e. tired, drugged, drunk, heated discussion (on phone or with passenger(s))
Anything that distracts from the task of safely piloting a vehicle is something that can be considered the same as ‘under the influence’ IMHO
Same goes for cyclists of course!
Affirm. Like.
and just plain incompetent.
Don’t bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Roll another one
Just like the other one
You’ve been hangin on to it
And I sure would like a hit
(Country Joe and The Fish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ALFwxdAto
Cheech and Chong parked and smoking.
When cycling or driving, when encountering a threat from another vehicle, whether drunk, aggressive or inattentive, the safest position is behind the threatening vehicle.
@BG – Unless the other vehicle is reversing of course
Related to today’s strip only by smell, I smelled a vehicle today on my morning bike commute. I was near a shuttle bus wrapped in signage about running on biodiesel. It smelled like french fries. Good thing I’d just eaten breakfast and wasn’t too hungry, otherwise that would have really got me salivating!
I’m surprised places like McDonalds and Burger King aren’t backing bio-diesel just for that reason. Not only would they then have a market for their used deep-fry oil, but the smell it produces will provoke an attack of “the munchies” and increase their sales.
I used to think I was being stupid when I drove high, but since I use the stuff constantly instead of anti-anxiety pills like valium, I found myself driving “impaired” often. That’s when I discovered I was handling everything with as much focus, reaction time, reflexes, and attention as I ever did on a good day before I started using it as medicine, and I rarely have bad days when anxiety overrides me and actually impairs me.
Do we worry about drivers on the doctor prescribed drugs that are so powerful they have to be carefully eased into and off of? It’s time to stop accepting the arbitrary lines of “good” and “bad” as designated by industry via government lobbying and get some damn research done. anecdotal research thus far implies that marijuana does not impair drivers.
Maybe I’m naïve, but I thought Joe and Yehuda were smelling alcohol, implying that the driver had been drinking so much that his breath could be smelled outside the vehicle. Marijuana didn’t occur to me.
Snap.
Good point Yolanda – My father was kicked in the head when he was trying to arrest some shop-breakers while he was in the Police. He sustained a scar on the meninges that left him with epilepsy. A lifetime of anti-epileptic drugs resulted. Sometimes, when he was particularly stressed he would have a ‘fit’.
From 1950 to when he gave up driving, he had just two crashes as a result. One didn’t involve anybody as he drove into a wall at low speed. The other was at the end of day when he had just taken ownership of a new car. We were stopping to turn left but still at about 30 mph, when the car in front suddenly hit the brakes. My Dad had not noticed the small amber ‘trafficator’ on the nearside (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficators) and had assumed the vehicle wasn’t going to slow down but continue at 40mph straight ahead. After we hit the car, it slewed to the other side of the road (nothing coming!) and we veered to the nearside, ending up in the ditch. That is the only collision with another vehicle my father could report after driving since WWII. (Where he was a driver!) The medicine he was on had recently been reduced and now had to be increased. 6-month-wait without a fit before he could drive again. Like me, If I have a fibrillation attack, I cannot drive for 6-months at least and my meds need to be reviewed. btw – I had my 6-month check-up last week and passed clear. Next time, I will be getting a new ICD/Pace-maker as the 4-year-old battery in this one is nearly spent.
I forgot to add that my Dad stopped driving at about 70 years old!
He had been a Sergeant leading a platoon of drivers. He was driving a DUKW on D-Day and at one point, was appointed as driver to an American General. He was in the lead truck delivering anti-tank ammo to the troops in Arnhem when an officer stopped the convoy and pointed out that a Tiger tank was just over the brow of the hill blasting everything that went over that hill! He was also moved to the Airborne and was on the supply drops to Berlin after WWII.
Yolanda says “I was handling everything with as much focus, reaction time, reflexes, and attention as I ever did on a good day before I started using it…”
Whose opinion was that?
Drunk drivers think they drive fine. Texters think they never miss a thing when they text & drive. Cell phone talkers are positive their driving skills are great.
Park the car.
Well when somebody else swerves into you and you react in busy traffic well enough to find the only open window to escape the accident, even though you’re so high you think you’re screwed, and the whole thing happens as smooth as a nascar race, that’s test enough for me. When similar near-events happens often (local drivers are crap) then that’s proof enough for me.
recently i read an article about this topic – drunk vs high drivers. slightly stoned drivers turned out to be ok but a bit slower compared to sober motorists while slightly drunk ones were taking risks and their reactions were slowed down. mixing the stuff had a very negative effect too.
Smell MJ on the route home. Some of it from cars (hopefully parked) or from homes. Don’t care for the smell.
I’m not sure I’d recognize the smell of marijuana if I encountered it. It’s been about 40 years since I was around anyone who used it (or at least, anyone who used it in my presence) and the smell is long forgotten.