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Yeah, I just read it and got all worked up again.
I can understand the desire to exact a pound of flesh from rule breakers, but what about people who are simply confused? Hasn't anyone here been confused by road signs in a strange city and broken the law because they didn't understand?
A confused/lost/overwhelmed driver sees a street they want to go down. They see a bus going down the street. There are cars parked along the street. So they drive down the street and smash into a hidden rising bollard, getting a concussion.
Nobody who knows the system would try to cheat it. How many people have you ever witnessed trying to drive out of a parking garage, for example, by tailgating the paying customer in front of them? It simply doesn't happen. People don't want to risk having their car damaged by the gate coming down. They know the system and don't try to cheat it, because they understand.
These people colliding with the bollards don't know the system. They are confused. Having been confused myself in the past when driving in a foreign city, I sympathize with them.
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