Mr burns,
Your chances of dying on any road in America are minuscule compared with Russian roulette.
Your dot can tell you with the actual fatalities per motor vehicle miles on this or any other stretch of road the own. Look into it and you may be surprised at how many tens of thousand, possibly hundreds of thousands, of people drive that road without death, injury, or property damage.
"The weak will be killed and eaten."
Here's some advice for I-81 drivers in Virginia:
Source: 5 Crucial Safety Tips for Driving on I-81 in VirginiaBe Patient and Cautious Around Tractor Trailers
I-81 is a major thoroughfare for trucks carrying products from the northeastern United States to states in the south and west. As a result, between 19% and 40% of all vehicles that travel I-81 are trucks. However, the interstate was originally designed to accommodate only 15% truck traffic. The high number of tractor trailers traveling I-81 poses a unique danger to passenger cars. Tractor trailers are much heavier than passenger cars. Therefore, they cannot accomplish tasks like braking, turning, or switching lanes as quickly as you can. Here are some facts to keep in mind when you are sharing the road with tractor trailers.The best things you can do to ensure your safety when traveling near tractor trailers are to remain patient and maintain a large distance between your car and tractor trailers.
- The average passenger car weighs around 5,000 lbs. An 18-wheel tractor trailer can weigh up to 40 tons (80,000 lbs).
- Due to the difference in weight, a tractor trailer needs about 40% more time to stop than the average passenger car.
- A car traveling at 55 mph needs about 225 feet to come to a complete stop. A semi-truck needs 335 feet.
Follow these Safety Tips Around Tractor Trailers and Semi-Trucks
VDOT reports that 35% of all I-81 accidents are tractor trailer accidents. To avoid becoming part of this statistic, be sure to follow these basic safety tips when traveling near tractor trailers on I-81 in Southwest Virginia.
- Trucks and tractor-trailers have large blind spots called no zones. Be aware that if you cannot see a truck driver in his outside mirrors, than he probably cant see your vehicle.
- Use low-beam headlights when following large trucks at night.
- When being passed by a tractor-trailer, slow down to avoid any water, dirt, or stones that may spray from its tires and reduce your visibility.
- When switching lanes in front of a tractor trailer, turn your blinker on and leave it on for several seconds before actually switching lanes. This will allow the truck driver time to realize your intentions and begin to slow if necessary.
Prolly a fraction of 2nd hand smoke deaths.
the free market solution - add a toll to the overused highway.
free stuff will always be overused.
I agree with you—but the bigger point is that the politicians take billions of OUR money and NEVER put it in infrastructure-(for OUR use). They use hundreds of thousands of OUR money to make themselves millionaires and billionaires (and their children), as they create millions of lazy, dumb teenagers who will be steeped in dept and demoralized completely (exp. if white males) so they are WORTHLESS and don’t know how to WORK (read Booker T. Washington’s Autobiography about WHAT people have to do to grow up to be moral and self-reliant (not a Slave).
The SYSTEM-——is a Leviathan—to produce SLAVES. And they spend billions to investigate why lesbians are ugly and fat and how to prevent HIV when males keep sodomizing each other to make their homosexual “friends” (themselves) filthy wealthy and promote slaves (vice is slavery).
Government agencies(IRS) are unconstitutional and promote theft (Marxism/Socialism (irrational evil religions), destroy the Constituton (Christian Ethics) and creates Rule of Man.It is misuse of money (twisting laws to make judges and lawyers into our “gods”—deciding “Law” —arbitrating right and wrong to DESTROY Objective Truth (our Constitution) which destroys work ethic in EVERYONE—even the “gung ho” business man like Trump, who has to bribe evil people like Hillary to be able to work in NYC or to “speak”. The system is RIGGED by MARXISTS and the SHACKLES have to be taken OFF.
The SYSTEM has to be DESTROYED as it is and will destroy the minds and ethics of our children. (with help of the mass indoctrination system to make Evil into Good (to make Western Civ (Christianity) into irrational, evil tribalism (puerile satanist/paganist cultures). We produces DUMB, IGNORANT narcissists and then we WONDER “WHY” our infrastucture is not there:
Got a HINT-—the Left is tearing DOWN America (”grinding it down”) so our offspring are so demoralized, in debt, trapped, can’t afford children, are drugged, can’t commit to a family, a future, so the Marxists can create a NWO (totalitarian WORLD, so they control ALL food (all reproduction allowed), ALL MONEY and ALL INFORMATION (which is almost COMPLETE now with evil google/facebook/twitter, etc. all controlled by a few psychopathic sodomites, who will control ALL perceptions of our children-—what is “good and evil”.
Cicero stated that Wisdom is discerning “Good and Evil”. We have a generation being programmed to “think” that slavey is good and boys are girls and sodomizing others is a virtue and killing your own genetic offspring is “good”. That is satanism (a religion) which is being FORCED into the SCHOOLS-—mass indoctrination systems to force your children into irrationality-—removal of Reason so they can never think critically or be moral human beings (Western Civ is impossible for Inca (tribal) Mindsets).
Wittgenstein: Whomever controls Words/Language/Images will control the beliefs/desires and the WORLDVIEW of the people-—esp. the CHILDREN that are removed from the Natural Family and in front of screens to produce artificial emotions which destroys integration of the brain (brain function) and destroys “thinking for self” and individualism—thinking outside the box. They CAN’T “think”. They were programmed like Pavlov’s dog. Our skools are designed to destroy Western Civ. ————Classical Christian Ideology which is the ONLY ideology which created Free Will and Individual Natural Rights from God). The pschopath satanists want to wipe it from the face of the earth, so State is god-—to get Zuckerman (god) “bots”-—slaves (consumers only) and addicts for the corporations/State/NWO.
Politicians are there to work for US and they do everything to impair us, to control us, to enslave us, to keep us from self-reliance and esp. to embed dependency (slavery/socialism) through the mass indoctrination system of skooling. Pavlov’s system of mass conditioning (Psychological warfare) on our children so they are twisted, dumb, ignorant, slaves of the State.
No Common Sense, no understanding of Reality (Truth) or Self (Identity). Marxism destroys identity in children-—(skooling/conditioning)—they destroy Reality (Natural Law/family) with artificial institutions and removal from that Truth (the family), which will embed warped ideas/emotions, warped loyalties/understandings in little children so they embed irrationality, evil (tribal, irrational) ways to “think”.
The Age of Reason was only possible with Classical Christian curricula-—and homeschooling (or small local schools with Bibles and all ages of children mixed) where individualism and identity (Reality) could be learned naturally, and the Real Life skills could be mastered (true self-reliance) (understanding of Natural Law which is Reason and Logic that created the Age of Reason).
The Constitution is BASED on Natural Law Theory (Objective Truth/God’s Design of Nature (not man’s utopia)). The Marxists are destroying not only those concepts (Logic) in our children-—but rewriting our history so children embed HATE for it and WILL reject it because they are so ignorant of Truth and will remain IRRATIONAL.
OUR money (that of the producers) needs to be used for us, the people (Good—NEVER EVIL)-—not to enrich our masters/bankers and to control and restrict us. Insanity is allowing govt. to take our money and use it to destroy us (control the minds of our own children). That is the SYSTEM and it is SATANISM or Marxism-—whatever-—just not rational and Christian and “Justice” or Constitutional. We need to take back the institutions, particularly the unconstitutional Department of “Education” which is a MANDATORY (lol) indoctrination system to destroy virtue formation in children (and WE pay for it—jokes on us).