I don’t know why people are so against roundabouts. They are not bad to drive and they are cheap to install and maintain when compared to the lights that they are going to put in. I have come to the conclusion that people don’t want to change for the better, they just want to stick with what happened in the past and not move forward.
Personally, I think that they could have put in the roundabouts with no problems what-so-ever, but the people complain enough and they don’t move forward with them.
I was listening to WPR yesterday and they were talking about the airlines, more specifically airplanes. They were saying that the pilot is losing their roots in actually how to fly the plane and rely more on the electronics in the plane. That got me to thinking about the vehicles these days, there are more electronic devices that control more and more aspects of the car these days. I know some of them help cars progress but who needs to shift a car with a paddle behind the steering wheel when more and more people don’t know how to drive a manual transmission anymore. If you want to shift a car manually skip the paddle shifter and buy yourself a car with a manual transmission, if you can find one anymore.
Another example is ABS, I know that it helps reduce the distance to stop the vehicle but what happens when the electronics for the ABS fail and you actually have to pump the brake on the car to be able to steer when you are trying to stop, that has actually happened to me the wheel speed sensor in the front wheel went out and the ABS didn’t work.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not “anti-electronics” but everything is to automated these days and no one knows how to do things manually anymore. While taking photography classes, I find out people who want to be a photographer don’t know how to operate their camera. they just put the camera in auto mode and go from there. You lose creative control when you let the camera control the F-Stop, shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus. Most of the time the camera makes the choice that you want to have everything in focus so it runs a slow shutter speed and a small aperture. What happens if you want the subject in focus and everything else out of focus? If you don’t know you are screwed.
Have fun with the rant. Later!
