Impatient Drivers While Towing on Two-Lane Roads

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Original Member Title: Idiot drivers
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An RVer described needing to stop for diesel while towing on two-lane roads and being passed on the left by a honking driver while waiting to turn left into a fuel station, despite using working turn signals. Other members shared similar experiences with tailgating, speeding, aggressive passing, and unpredictable behavior around RVs, with examples from Northern Indiana, Indianapolis, Nevada, Boston, San Francisco, Louisiana, Alaska, Arkansas, and California.

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Apparently, "Idiot drivers" was not a clear enough title for AI so it changed it to something much wordier and less interesting. Good grief! And I just noticed this in the thread summary - pretty much says it all:
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The AI thread summary has a click box asking if you like the new title. I doubt management pays much attention to the results of the poll.
 
The last bad tailgater I remember was downtown Quartzsite, a big dually with a 5th wheel hitch in the bed. I was like really bud, REALLY!!!
 
The AI thread summary has a click box asking if you like the new title. I doubt management pays much attention to the results of the poll.
Thank you! I had not noticed those polling questions before. I just gave the title change a thumbs down and submitted my comments. Let's see what, if any, reaction/reply it gets. I don't mind the summary - it's easy enough to skip over - but when I search for a thread I created and can't find it since the title has changed, it's aggravating.
 
Ah, is that a problem? In tight situations when people approach to pass I slow down to help them get around me quicker. Quicker is safer. I was taught to do that in Drivers Ed.
Agree. I don't like to be followed while on the 2 land roads. Whenever a vehicle is behind me, I'll pull over and slow. I want to be sure they can pass safely. Even on the Interstates when necessary, I'll pull way over and slow. Example on I-80 when several trucks with over-width trailers going faster than my struggling gasser, I'd move way over. Both times, the truck was pulling something that was easily 12 feet wide. I was using the shoulder as much as possible and the truck made it around. Another time I pulled into a truck parking area and let them go. Oddly enough one of the trucks I let pass pulled over for some reason and eventually caught up and passed me again.
 
Whenever a vehicle is behind me, I'll pull over and slow. I want to be sure they can pass safely.
Same here. Just yesterday headed back home on a rural 2 lane going around the speed limit, a pickup came up fast behind me. When I came to about the only place he could pass safely I turned on the blinker, slowed down, pulled to the right and let him pass.

When another driver is acting like an idiot, probably the vast majority of time they are-- with their idiotic driving habits that is. However, on more than one occasion I was racing to deal with a medical emergency with a passenger on board. Another times with a beloved pet that had been injured. Still other time hurrying home to deal with a crisis there.

So with this in mind when faced with a driver coming up fast behind me for example, I give them the benefit of the doubt and do what I can to let them pass safely. Yeah, probably just an idiot thinking they are more important than anyone else, but one never knows...
 
Why would anyone want to read through a chronological group conversation and be exposed to each person's opinion, when the AI can just sum it all up for you?
Interpersonal relationships require so much effort, and you could end up making a connection with another human or altering your view away from the approved narrative!
 
Why would anyone want to read through a chronological group conversation and be exposed to each person's opinion, when the AI can just sum it all up for you?
Interpersonal relationships require so much effort, and you could end up making a connection with another human or altering your view away from the approved narrative!
Not really the ai summing it up.

Just the opinion of who programmed it. Old saying in the computer biz: garbage in garbage out.
 
Not really the ai summing it up.

Just the opinion of who programmed it. Old saying in the computer biz: garbage in garbage out.
I know my computer science background affects my opinion of AI. Most of my career was in safety-of-life critical systems and serious DoD security systems. Failure really wasn’t an option, so we were all so very careful with analysis, design, development, and test. There is a reason these types of systems are expensive, because if they fail humans die. The way AIs can just randomly hallucinate false information without any notice is just way outside my comfort levels! People who worked on products without those limitations probably feel more comfortable. Heck, I would feel more comfortable if the AI just said “I’m totally operating without guardrails right now, so ignore me!” But AIs do not fail safely, they just fail without notice, and to my mind that is why they are unacceptable for anything beyond simple things, things that don’t matter.
 
Most of my career was in safety-of-life critical systems and serious DoD security systems
Same. And one of the biggest threats to operating safely was usually some in-charge who thought the best thing to do was integrate 3 or 4 different systems monitoring equipment into 1 screen that 1 grunt could oversee with no idea what he's looking at.
 
Same. And one of the biggest threats to operating safely was usually some in-charge who thought the best thing to do was integrate 3 or 4 different systems monitoring equipment into 1 screen that 1 grunt could oversee with no idea what he's looking at.
Sounds like you're talking about the new and improved Campendium app. I'm convinced it was updated by non-rving types.
 
The way AIs can just randomly hallucinate false information without any notice is just way outside my comfort levels!
But artificial intelligence, as I expect you know, is so much more than just typing a prompt into a chatbot, or messing up a perfectly good forum application. It's put to use in virtually all aspects of life these days-- whether we're aware of it or not.

If anyone doubts that, just as "it":

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