Re: Last minute lane changers

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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00

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In <slrn6qt0hm.ch4.joelga@pebble.org> joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry) writes:

>>After you have been in an accident, you can do one of two things.  You
>>can decide that it was not preventable.  Or you can decide that it WAS
>>preventable, and ask yourself what you could have done differently.

>This is at odds with your .sig, man.  The idea is to avoid the accident
>in the first place.

Is it really add odds with my .sig?  If somebody is complaining about
how the accident was not his fault, simply point out to him that it
doesn't matter who caused the accident -- what matters is that it was
his own responsibility to prevent it, and he failed to prevent it.

>I haven't been, for decades.  I argue with many of the things you say
>because many successful accident avoidance strategies are at odds with
>what you advocate.  And some of the things you advocate may be accident
>increasers.

You mean not changing lanes to please tailgaters?  You have to balance
the risk of repeated lane changing versus the risk of an angry tailgater
behind you AND the lower risk to others ahead of you who don't have to
deal with that tailgater.

I contend that if nobody ever changed lanes to please a tailgater, there
would be no tailgaters.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
a2i communications, a quality ISP
    "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
     takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."

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From: c.c.eiftj@06.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: Last minute lane changers
Date: 1998/07/16
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