begin quoting Rick Carlson as of Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:33:20PM -0800: > Lan Barnes wrote: [snip] > >Note that my statement was that anyone who thinks a REAL car protects him > >from harm when he does a REAL bonehead and reckless maneuver on the > >highway has a serious problem, that problem being discriminating between > >reality and non-reality > > So noted. can you also accept that many people who, feeling threatened > by other drivers menacing them with SUV's driven in such a way as to > indicate they feel invincible in their large vehicle, feel a need to > buy a SUV just to have a chance to survive a crash with another one?
I have met people who purchased an SUV _just_ for that reason. > Reality vs non-reality does not always exist on the freeways otherwise > you would not see people reading newspapers as they drive down the > freeway, or shaving, or putting on makeup, or changing clothes, or > talking on cell phones that obviously are too much of a distraction to > allow the driver to be aware of his/her surroundings. Most vehicles I've seen flipped over in the median on the highway (which seems to be a couple times a year that I drive by such an accident) have been SUVs. Often, there appears to be no other vehicle involved, which leads me to think that the driver was doing something stupid. > For that matter explain why some drivers think that increasing their > speed during a rain storm or thick fog makes it safer than slowing down > to a safer speed during those conditions. What you don't see isn't there. -- Look! All that water makes the road smoother! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
