Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:07:02 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
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Well, we all pulled it off, we did stop in time.... despite this stupid
stupid man who was backing up in the traffic lane on a pretty busy major
highway on a Sunday afternoon...Because why, I have no idea...I mean, if one
has to always drive as if the very worst possible thing will happen at each
second, we wouldn't drive at all. As shown by this driver's actions, you
can never anticipate the level of stupidity humans can reach..all because he
was too lazy to proceed on to a safe spot to turn around..And then to sit
there in his Buick and expect me to back up too so he still didn't have to
turn around....incredible!
Riding down a freeway at ~90mph with 8 lanes of bored inattentive
commuters in the very close adjacent lanes, peices of junk scattered along
in the traffic flow, cars in questionable repair...loads hastily tied onto
huge trucks, Grandma driving her brand new 60' long Diesel pusher motorhome
with the Lexus in tow...Now that is "overdriving" but millions do it
everyday.
Don Hanson
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Matthew Snook <matt@snooksband.com> wrote:
> So why can't truckers, those professionals of the road, figure this out?
> Those guys are _always_ driving beyond their stopping ability. Scariest
> thing for me is winter driving, when they won't slow down - doing 50 or 60
> -
> on snow pack or ice. Anybody want to guess the stopping distance of a
> truck
> going downhill on snow? Not that trucks ever cause any problems in the
> winter... (sarcasm intended)
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> Subject: Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
>
> ...PS, on what started this thread.
> I think a rise , like the top of a hill, was a factor in this near mishap.
> Needless to say ..........any time you are approaching a rise
> ............there is a blind spot right there in front of you .
> Like if you approach at 60, and your stopping distance from 60 mph is say
> 150 feet.....
> you come over the crest, there's something 100 feet past the crest that you
> couldn't see until reaching the crest ....
> you are actually overdriving...
>
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