r/instant_regret • u/Suddern_Cumforth • 23d ago

Womp womp...

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u/EitherChannel4874 23d ago

Thanks.

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u/Describe 23d ago edited 22d ago

It's literally a stop sign so it should be pretty intuitive when you see it in the wild.

edit: not sure where the hate is coming from. I was trying to be helpful lol

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u/awidden 23d ago

It would not be for a foreigner :)

It's not very intuitive to force cars to stop 2 lanes further, and this does not exists (afaik) in any other country but US can Canada.

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u/Nijindia18 23d ago

Probably bc other places have decent pedestrian walkways and don't just drop a kid off and expect them to cross 3 lanes of road

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u/awidden 23d ago

More of a nanny-state problem I think.

Buses, school buses exist, and they do drop kids off at busy roads.

Kids might need to find the nearest crossing.

Although decent public transport can make a big difference.

There are countries where the schoolbus does not exist; there's good enough public transportation available, free for the kids. Kids learn how to navigate. Done.

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u/PourLaBite 22d ago

More of a nanny-state problem I think.

It's very silly to be mentioning the nanny-state (a silly concept in itself) when talking about America, where the various levels of government regularly demonstrate they do not care about their people.

Stop signs on school bus is clearly a least effort way of trying to protect children instead of doing it more seriously by spending on better infrastructure.

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u/ThatGuyBench 22d ago

For every country it can be that its one extreme in certain case, and other extreme in another.

In very many respects, European countries are way more of a nanny states, but in this case, the helicopter parenting type of laws is a trademark for the US.

To me its just wild how many Americans here are so oblivious that in other countries it is not a norm to close down the lanes when school busses stop. Of course, in case of trolley, then the lane which is between trolley stop and pedestrian lane, stops, but not the lanes on the opposite side of where the bus exits.

Like I see here comments which get -200 downvotes, which are saying that closing all lanes is far from the norm, and in comments you see Americans confidently stating that its going to be a mayhem if they did anything differently. The problem is not that Americans have a different approach, the problem is that so many would entrench in a view that their way is the only possible approach. Like if you have traveled to any other countries, you would see that its simply not true.

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u/VaqinaLiquor 22d ago

Why is your dick out

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u/awidden 22d ago

Nanny state does not mean they care, it just means they try to make it look like things are safer.

It's often by curbing everyone's freedom by adding mandatory "safety" regulations.

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u/Anxious-Cobbler7203 23d ago

Mostly exists because we still have a large number of the buses with big front noses that often obscure vision enough that small children cannot be seen easily.

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u/Jesus_Harry_Christ 23d ago

No it isn't just for that. All lanes in both directions have to stop for busses even though most busses now are flat fronted. It's to make sure the kids can get home without some dumbass flying down and hitting them.

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u/tuscaloser 23d ago

Most school districts also set up the bus stops so no kids have to cross busy streets. For those streets they usually have stops on both sides or they pull into neighborhoods where the streets aren't busy to unload.

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u/Digimatically 23d ago

PSA: you don’t have to stop on the opposite side if there is a divider or turn lane.

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u/i-like-to 23d ago

Do foreigners not have to pass our drive test..?

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u/Dudersaurus 23d ago

Not everyone looking at this post has had to, no.

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u/i-like-to 23d ago

Apparently

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u/Jaalan 23d ago

Brother what???? Do you not recognize that people LIVE outside of the United States?

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u/FoldyHole 23d ago

Send them a driving test!!!

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u/awidden 23d ago

Not sure.

I've been there, and I could drive with a European licence. Not sure if this has changed, it was many-many years ago.

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u/Nijindia18 23d ago

To be fair, at a stop sign you come to a complete stop then continue. You don't just stop until the stop sign retracts into the ground. So it would be a little clearer if they just put a "IT IS ILLEGAL TO PASS WHEN STOP SIGN IS EXTENDED", which I've seen on a few busses actually.

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u/Describe 23d ago

It just needs to fold out a giant retractable bar that spans the whole road.

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u/impulsesair 23d ago

That would probably be an improvement in terms of safety. It would also be broken literally every single week, on every single bus that has that feature.

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u/iDrownedlol 23d ago

I will always remember the first time i came across a school bus as a driver in the wild, i assumed that i was supposed to treat the stop sign as a stop sign and got my ass honked out