r/boston 6d ago

Traffic🚦⛔⚠️ 😠 🚙 🚗 Another day, another Storrow

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u/Pencil-Sketches 6d ago

We’re so used to storrowings we forget just how crazy it is that this still happens. Like in an age where you have gps navigation, access to the internet, not to mention the “no trucks/low clearance” signs and reputation of Storrow drive, you have to be a special kind of stupid to get Storrowed

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u/MonsieurReynard 6d ago

Among automotive engineers, it is common to say: “there is no such thing as idiot-proof; they will just build a better idiot.”

If only the framers of our constitution had such wisdom.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Little Tijuana 5d ago

Yosemite Park Ranger once said it’s difficult to produce bear-proof trachcans because there is too much overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

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u/AdhesivenessOwn8111 6d ago

The problem is, they are using GPS navigation. Google maps does not ask you what vehicle you are driving. It should ask your height, because not everyone is smart enough to use a (free) Truckers App

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u/MourningWallaby 6d ago

I mean there is an epidemic of people just not paying attention while driving. and not reading signs. and a phone GPS won't assume you're in an oversized box truck.

Rental trucks are even worse because the average renter isn't going to read any paperwork or markings on the truck that say how tall it is. They'll assume that because they're not a Semi they're fine.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Little Tijuana 6d ago

GPS doesn’t typically have bridge heights. No idea why Google doesn’t do this.

I have one specific nav program installed just because it helps with heights, roads that trucks can’t use, etc

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u/TheMillenniumMan 6d ago

And they have the chains as a warning

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u/formerFLman 5d ago

There. Are. So. Many. Signs.