Not exact matches
As I am sitting here writing this contribution at 8:50
in the morning, I can already hear signs of the relentless fighting that has been going on for over ten days around Rachel's Tomb
in Bethlehem: Soldiers shooting tear gas canisters, military jets are flying over the area, ambulances rushing to the scene and hundreds of
impatient drivers waiting to cross the area honking without let - up.
Its idle - stop feature shut down the engine at stop lights, saving some gas
in the city, and restarted quickly enough for all but the most
impatient drivers.
But that is not practical
in a well - trafficked urban setting, where
impatient drivers behind aren't going to tolerate the slow acceleration or 20 mph speeds it takes to keep the gas engine off.
Because of that, finding news of cars against bikes incidents
in Brazil is not hard, the most sadistic being the case of the Porto Alegre «
driver» who was so
impatient with the Critical Mass riding
in front of him that he decided to just step on the pedal and send 17 cyclists flying through the air.
An
impatient driver attempted to cross over the double yellow line and side - swiped her motorcycle sending her into the guard rail which resulted
in her death.
Many of these accidents happen from
drivers who are
in a hurry or who are too
impatient.
In an opinion piece for the Winnipeg Free Press, columnist Gwynne Dyer summarized the core of the pro-driverless argument when she stated that «the widespread use of self - driving vehicles almost certainly will bring down the death rates sharply everywhere, because even if computers can be as stupid as human
drivers, they can not be as
impatient or angry or drunk.»