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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the excuses and rationalizing here are shocking. Basically people are saying that they can't be expected to stop for or see a bus because they are inattentive, distracted, the sun is in their eyes, they didn't know the rules, etc. Really?

Guess what? The moments you are inattentive, distracted, or can't see, are exactly the moments where you hit something or someone. Which is why these laws exist and which is why the privilege of having a driver's license assumes that you will be paying attention and able to see where you're going and what's around you, and that you know the rules of the road. Now, we all know reality is different and no one's perfect. But that's why when you fall down, you pay the ticket. Not continue to make a litany of excuses which just sound like case studies for bad driving.

The post with the excuse about the sun being in your eyes and not seeing the bus on Rockville Pike is beyond ridiculous. If you can't see where you're going and what's around you, why the heck are you continuing to press the accelerator? You didn't see the bus, what else might you not have seen? I've had plenty of moments of bad driving myself, but when it happens, I'm embarrassed and try to acknowledge that it's no one's fault but my own and that if something bad had happened, a litany of excuses and apologies would not have undone that thing or gotten me out of the consequences. Come on. If you're confused about the rules with a stopped bus, why wouldn't you just play it safe and stop? [/quote]

I think we all agree you are supposed to stop, even OP.  But to pretend most drivers are or should be paying attention to what is going on 4 lanes over, on the opposite side of the ride, in the far lane is dumb. You aren’t.  99 percent of the time when people are driving they are focused on what is directly in front of them and what is happening in the lanes directly on either side.
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