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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / December 2006Speediots piling up like dominoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I Who do you think was doing most of the crashing in that gut- wrenching sequence; speediots or moderate drivers? Who was better prepared to stop or steer to safety when they came upon those _unexpected_ vehicles? A popular term is to "scrub off speed." The more of it you have, the harder the "scrubbing." Simple physics that requires no degree. Does anyone still not know what "unexpected" means? Look at all the dummies who wouldn't even slow down in that cone-zone where they know danger lurks. That's why State govts have to run ad campaigns. These are the SAME smugsters who tell you that nothing can ever catch them off guard, since they've got the corner on cool. F.W. http://www.geocities.com/aggressive_driving/ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > speed." The more of it you have, the harder the "scrubbing." > Simple physics that requires no degree. It is just common sense not to drive faster than you can see. Lots of people in that video violated that rule. But there are also situations where you can see much further and where the areas to the side of the road are wide open. Do you support driving faster in those situations, or is that too much for your little brain? > Does anyone still not know what "unexpected" means? Look at all > the dummies who wouldn't even slow down in that cone-zone where [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > http://www.geocities.com/aggressive_driving/  Signature'It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix.' "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun) >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the areas to the side of the road are wide open. Do you support driving > faster in those situations, or is that too much for your little brain? It's too much for his little brain. Best not to try to engage him, he's too stupid to carry on an intelligent discussion. Remember the adage about wrestling with a pig? nate Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > It's too much for his little brain. Best not to try to engage him, he's > too stupid to carry on an intelligent discussion. Remember the adage > about wrestling with a pig? I thought it was teaching a pig to sing ... -- C.R. Krieger (Been there; done that) Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers) - 08 Dec 2006 12:59 GMT Someone wrote: >Simple physics that requires no degree. Unfortunately, Carl, you've missed the physical law that two objects can not occupy the same space at the same time. Also, unfortunately for you and some other incompetent driver, you don't realize the best way to reduce the damage from "gut wrenching crashes" is to avoid them. Fortunately for me, your ignorance will have no impact on me, if you'll pardon the pun. Later, retard. I'm off to work, and to deal with LLBing retards. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I > > Who do you think was doing most of the crashing in that gut- > wrenching sequence; speediots or moderate drivers? After watching the video, I'd say neither group was doing most of the crashing. The crashing was done by drivers who were oblivious to everything more than 10 feet in front of their bumper. I wouldn't call them speediots or moderate drivers. I would however suggest that they shouldn't have a license. Every impact I saw in that video was easily avoidable, whether you were driving the speed limit, or faster. If you are WATCHING THE ROAD, that is. -Dave > The crashing was done by drivers who were oblivious to everything > more than 10 feet in front of their bumper. The first thing that struck me about this video a year or so back (it's a remix with some "instant replay" and what I guess are transcripts of a cell call; for the original, try http://media.putfile.com/Pileup) was that it all takes place in what any fool can plainly see is a construction zone, with coned-off lanes on the accident side of the median and what appear to be worklights on the opposite side. I don't know what kind of signage was upstream of all this, but Caltrans is usually pretty conscientious about advance warning of their activities... The version I first saw seemed to be longer and more complete, perhaps edited to remove the dull stretches. Those showed even more people *not* having accidents (in addition to some further subsequent accidents). Many of them even avoided the accidents without particular drama; I would assume t they were the ones who were well "ahead" of the vehicle and moderating their speed based on what they saw. I hope the people who had the accident near the right side of the video, then got out of their vehicles and stood right by them (about the 1:20 mark in this video), scared themselves during the rest of the evolution. Particularly instructive is the subsequent accident over in the #1 lane, in which the blue Mustang that started it all got walloped, with, I believe, its two occupants still inside. --Joe > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I > > Who do you think was doing most of the crashing in that gut- > wrenching sequence; speediots or moderate drivers? Everyday idiots not paying attention to the road in front of them. You know carl, people who drive like you, braindead and unaware. Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), George Orwell said in rec.autos.driving: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwoj2cx1I > > Who do you think was doing most of the crashing in that gut- > wrenching sequence; speediots f.ck Off And Die, Carl!!! <<the rest of your celebration of incompetent driving snipped as its not worth replying to>> SignatureLoco laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE shows us how stupid it really is and that foreign royalty deserves preferential treatment: "This driver killed two people!! Don't portray her as representing the american people!!! I hope she's locked up forever and i don't care if she killed a king or a homeless bum." -- laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE, 7/13/06 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/g2fea Message ID: fsscb21skmba6iegemv0u6f3n1obeoj53r@4ax.com |
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