What are they thinking?

Lately I have noticed behaviour by some drivers that had largely been absent for some time. They have not only been acting completely without responsibility , but they seem to be trying to provoke disastrous consequences in the fashion of terrorists of the road. Here are some of the things I have observed lately:

At a major junction along one of the avenues in the city of Valencia with two lanes, which I will call (A) cross (heading north) where about six lanes of traffic (B) line up to filter down into two lanes heading east. It is vital that all northbound traffic be stopped when the east bound traffic begin to move, and of course, vice-versa. One absolute imbecile from the north bound traffic drove straight across all that mass of cars as they began to move. How the biggest pile up of cars and vans was avoided is anyone's guess. That driver should have been stopped and slapped around the ears until he got some sense knocked into his head. Then his car should have been taken from him, forever.

Traffic was stopped at a red light on a very large roundabout. Up comes a white van from behind that skirted around the cars that were stopped only to run the red light and carried on until he had to stop at the next red light as there was no way around. He needed to have been hauled out of the cab and persuaded that such behaviour is not acceptable.

I was driving in the city with my car loaded with children and adults. I needed to make a lane change to the left. I was signalling to traffic behind me. They could have given me the second I needed but no, they were all deliberately speeding up to overtake me. What were they thinking? Had I tried to enforce the change there would have been a crash. Then I would have heard from those same shit for brains idiots that it was my fault.

A car being driven by a driver who was clearly feeling his way turned into a one-way street, ignoring the Do Not Enter sign, and the fact that cars parked on both sides were all facing him. He drove to the end of the block and forced a car entering the street to stop and back up. What was he thinking? He wasn't!

The winners of this contest in stupidity were the three speeding cars that overtook me on a hill where they could not have known if there was traffic coming the other way, or not. Had there been one single car or truck coming towards them I shudder to think what would have happened. That would not have classified as an accident because they must have had an agenda to make as much of a mess as was possible. 

Vehicles that drive themselves will eliminate such human craziness and irresponsibility. Having such wonderful machines to move around in is one of the perks of living in our modern age. The only thing wrong is the human factor.

How sad is that?

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Eugene Carmichael