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Daily gripe: Today's panic

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From: Walt Horning
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:00
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I saw this incident happen today. A driver, with running mouth disease
started drifting right to change lanes. Problem is, she never saw the
car in the lane to her right. She just kept coming over. The other guy
of course reacted by drifting into the exit lane.

Finally, she realized what she was doing and reacted by panicking,
rather that reacting as she should have. She turned radically and
nearly lost control on the damp pavement. 

Of course it would have been fun for me too, had she did a donut or
two.

This shows simply one thing, the MVA does not require drivers to learn
how to react properly rather than panic. It high time in this
high-tech world to train and test drivers on simulators so that they
can learn control. (Ironically, those who have played many action
video games are probably better prepared to drive.)
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From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
Subject: Daily gripe: Today's panic
Date: 1998/08/11
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