M. N. Jolley, Author

@MrZaius @LibSoci @jake_gotta I like that a lot.

@Stewartctor @ericmlbc @BernieBroStar @jake_gotta Exactly, thank you! Stop *if you can do so safely*. Depending on the timing of the yellow light and traffic around you, that's not always possible. What's your point - that driving should only ever take place in a platonically ideal hypothetical?

@werdnum @SpeakingBee @TimMoses37 @jake_gotta Fair enough. I don't have the statistics knowledge or time to really say why different studies produce different results; I shouldn't have made a declarative statement about ambiguous data.

@MNJolleyWriting @SpeakingBee @TimMoses37 @jake_gotta The motorist's association says so? How convincing. Here's another source upthread - apparently you get slightly more accidents but they're far less severe

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta And on regulation, the point I'm trying to make is: Problems like speeding can be influenced by regulation, but aren't caused by regulation. Problems like poor urban planning/poor safety standards are rooted entirely in regulation; individuals have little influence there.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta Looking back here, I think my argument wasn't very solid anyways. A better point; the rates (that I was able to find, which were mostly self reported) of people speeding in EU vs US are roughly the same, and by roughly the same amounts relative to the existing speed limits.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta (Also, sorry if I don't respond to every tweet. On Mobile it's hard for me to keep track of all the branching threads; I'm not trying to ignore your points.)

@ericmlbc @BernieBroStar @jake_gotta ...so if you've got someone riding your bumper and a light with turns yellow with little stopping room, do you think it's better to slam on your brakes and possibly cause a collision, or to keep moving at speed and possibly go through a light that's been red for a half second?

@MNJolleyWriting @BernieBroStar @jake_gotta Pretty much yes. What level of skill do you want and how much adherence to the rules of the sky do you expect from an airline pilot?

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta Just yesterday my GPS thought I was on a residential road that ran parallel to the highway I was actually on. If a geofenced speed limit had been enforced, my car would have slowed down to 25 on the freeway and I'd probably have been rear ended.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta A few possibilities: Smaller cars designed for pedestrian safety, instead of exclusively rider safety Investment in public transit where possible Urban planning that reduces thoroughfares and makes walking areas safer (These also benefit carbon emissions, as a bonus)

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta That's the wrong question, because the issue is: 1, there's no good way to prevent all speeding in all cases. 2, there are much better, more efficient, and more effective ways to reduce vehicle deaths that don't involve blaming consumers for regulatory problems.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta I genuinely have no idea how you think we could stop people from driving over the speed limit with currently available technology, without either extremely judicious punitive enforcement or very cost prohibitive technology. Geofencing isn't accurate enough to do that.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta And to be clear: I'm not defending car culture. I'm arguing that aggressive enforcement of laws and being cruel and punitive towards individuals is a bad solution to the wrong problem. Even with fines scaled to income, fine based systems still disproportionately punish the poor.

@jesus__kristo @Steve206966 @jake_gotta ...your own source. Many of the countries who your source cites as having much better road safety than the US also have higher speed limits than most of the US. Heck, Germany has *no* speed limits. If the issue were speeding, or even speed, *in isolation*, how is that the case?

@MrZaius @LibSoci @jake_gotta I don't even live in a particularly dense urban area and my GPS regularly thinks I've moved to a small back road while I am in fact on the highway. Imagine a geofence forcing your car to brake from 70 to 35 on the highway.

@ericmlbc @BernieBroStar @jake_gotta Does your idea of being a 'good driver' involves painstakingly obeying all traffic rules to the letter regardless of context or circumstance, with no flexibility for even slightly out-of-the-ordinary situations?

@BernieBroStar @jake_gotta I’ll fix this—be a good driver or no license.

@SpeakingBee @TimMoses37 @jake_gotta ww2.motorists.org/issues/red-lig… No they don't.

@TimMoses37 @jake_gotta They absolutely do.

@DrunkScribe To each their own, but "They can say, they can say that it sounds crazy, they can say they can say I've lost my mind, I don't care I don't care so call me crazy" is just such a bad line. (*in my opinion.) From what I've heard, the rest of the soundtrack is fine enough.

@MNJolleyWriting Oh I actually like that soundtrack! To each their own!

What’s a song everyone loves that you personally think is garbage?