Clovers often run in pairs. Check out these two:
Even when I passed them both – on the right! – they both stayed in the left lane. You can see the Clover in the Tahoe wandering across the double yellow into the opposing lane of traffic. These “drivers” are objectively dangerous as well as inept (the two are related) yet they are effectively immune from being stopped by cops, even though it is illegal to cross the double yellow and also to not yield to faster-moving traffic when driving in the left lane and the right lane is open. Cops rarely – if ever – enforce those laws. They spend the majority of their enforcing time on “speeders” and smartphone scofflaws. It is illegal to “speed” and (in most states) to text while driving but neither are objectively – necessarily – dangerous. It is always dangerous – to other drivers, especially – to wander across the double yellow. Driving faster than a sign says is just that. Cops do it all the time, too. 
This gets at the meat of the problem, which is that “illegal” driving is given more attention by cops than dangerous/incompetent driving. Indeed, the attention focused on merely “illegal” driving has become pedantic (and tyrannical) in the extreme. Cops will do violent, sudden u-turns in heavy traffic to wheel around in Hot Pursuit of a driver whose car is missing one of its ear tags or that has a crack in the windshield. They lurk like barracudas under piers in cutouts, waiting for a “speeder” to go after. They will ride a motorcycle at high speed through traffic to catch a seatbelt scofflaw.
But Clovers are indulged.
Why? Because none of this is actually about “safety.” It is about punishing people who can drive. Why would they want to do that? For the same reason people who can think are punished. For the same reason that ranchers steer bulls. Gaze into the glassy eyes of a steer and you will see a Clover looking back at you.
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Slightly OT, but interesting.
This guy has developed patterns that make you ‘invisible’ to Flock and other cameras & ‘AI’ recognition.
He’s apparently also trialed his patterns on cars, thus making them ‘invisible’ to traffic cameras.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norecognition/norecognition-ai-adversarial-clothing
As I have mentioned here before: Technology is neither good nor bad. But it can be made to be either. This one is squarely in the ‘good’ camp.
In town clovers are maddening. Left turn arrow, the first car forever to start moving (got to finish that text first!) The next 0 to 20 MPH a snail would be faster. So, two cars make the light instead of five. The shocking improvement is now we get a blinking yellow arrow instead of an immediate solid red so you have a fighting chance of making that left turn once there is a break in the oncoming traffic.
Waiting for family in town, I’m standing outside on the sidewalk, some chick rolls slowly by, head tilted down messing with the phone. You can argue with me but I’m a solid NO on phone use texting in the car. There is no way you’re able to pay proper attention to driving while punching away on that damn phone. Me in charge? 30 days in the slammer first time, 5 years next time.
I would include the loss of driving privileges for life. Jail never reformed anyone. And if they are caught driving after, put ’em in the slammer for life. Until the texting-and-driving folks feel real pain, they will not put the phone down.
I read once about left lane hog tickets vs “speeding” tickets written by Illinois state troopers. Hundreds of thousands of “speeding” tickets. Five, yes five left lane tickets in the same period. Three written by the same trooper. So basically one trooper was writing them, and even he didn’t write very many.
Incompetent drivers are an actual danger vs “speeders”. You think they would become a new revenue source for police departments, but they never do.
Almost universally when you pass some Clover on the right they’re f-ing with their sailfawn.
As for the glassy eyed steer stare, I’d say it’s the gelding of the mind that is so insidious.
They are the ones that often cause car crashes behind themselves and drive on blissfully unaware of what they just did. Almost never caught for it too.
Clover infestation is mind boggling in my semi-rural area of western NY state. Also have AGW infestation of every flavor – town pigs, sheriff, state troopers. Always hunting but never bagging clovers. Amazing to watch these tards meander down the road. One speed – 45 mph on a 55 and then hold it through a 35. Never busted. And of course can’t stay centered in their lane, constantly drifting from oncoming lane to shoulder. And then suddenly braking for no apparent reason. They just saunter along like Mr. Magoo. Completely oblivious to their surroundings and the misery they leave in their wake.
Even worse is when you get stuck behind a group of bikers, all traveling slow. It is a lot of fun getting around them, as you need a lot of road room. Aaah, I can understand that this time of year they are getting in as many rides as possible before the long Winter arrives. The other day, I passed a truck (on the left) before the two roads merged into one lane each way. The truck proceeded to tail gait me the entire drive, refused to pass, slowed down when I did, speed up, etc. Apparently, he was butt hurt that I passed him in the first place. And people wonder why I try and stay off the roads as much as possible. The impending Winter is really going to be a treat (ha ha). As for the cracked windshields, that never happens. Everyone has a cracked windshield, and the LEO’s would simply piss off too many people giving out “fix-it” tickets.
Bikers are a nuisance with a death wish. They should be banned from all major roadways.
Hi MH,
Most motorcycle riders are better drivers because it takes a bit more skill to ride a motorcycle. That said, there are two-wheeled Clovers also. The ones I have encountered are always riding huge cruisers.
I meant bicyclists not motorcycles. Guess I whiffed on the context of shadows comment. Sorry.
I thought that was what you intended, MH – but wasn’t sure!
I think the biggest issue with bicyclists is drivers – Clovers – who are afraid to pass them unless they can use two-thirds of the opposing lane to do it. Since the opposing lane often has traffic, this means it’s common for a huge conga line to form behind a single Clover who won’t pass a single bicyclist.
When negotiating a blind curve on the inside (shorter radius) lane, this is when the risk of oncoming drivers ‘cutting the curve’ presents itself.
Such a 90-degree turn exists on my 25 mph residential street. Regularly, about once a month, some goofball is cutting the inside of the curve, oblivious to the fact that someone else (i.e., me) might be coming the other way.
On the nearby two-lane, 55 mph state highway, serious accidents occur every year or two on a notorious hairpin curve, where lane cutters obliviously drive on the wrong side of the road.
What causes this brain damage? Should flatlanders be allowed to drive on mountain roads without a special license certification? Oops … that’s the imperious logic of statism, rearing its ugly head. Better just to decriminalize taking potshots at them through an open window! 🙂
I live in the flatlands with mostly straight roads. They can’t stay in the middle of their lane even on a road without curves.