The real causes of the vast majority of traffic backups and major accidents tend to just keep on driving, oblivious. And hell I wouldn't doubt if the driver was so completely ignorant of their own role and was only actively looking where needed and never saw any of the accident results down the road and probably only partially observed the one that nearly hit them.
I've never personally observed that kind of moronic behavior - but if it was remotely possible I would have been chasing them down like oh no, you ain't skipping on this, it's clearly all your fault. And such people should get the blame for all the downwind effects too. Fuck people like that. Take some other transportation instead, clearly have no right to be behind the wheel.
There's one thing that leaves me conflicted: I desperately wish for most major thoroughfares to be fully automated, all kinds of sensors and V2V communications systems, cars just zooming along without needing worry about humans who can't react in an appropriate amount of time.
But while I'd love to just kick back and let the robocar whisk me away to my destination, maybe dozing off, I'd still want somewhere I could still physically drive. I love the sport and art of it, the feel of the road (even though in the midwest I'd rather not feel the pothole-wrecked roads throughout winter and into spring... at best), and can't foresee giving up actually driving, forever.
My feelings were similar to hers (in the comic).
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