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russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:
>In article <6ooufr$oa6$1@samba.rahul.net>,
>Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@06.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>}In
>}<C3490CF6E5448009.3B1DE26060D405CE.70B30B0F96016755@library-proxy.airnews.net>
>}Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) writes:

>}>Now the car behind you accelerates for no known reason.  If they hit
>}>you, would that be their fault or theirs?  Do you think that you'd be
>}>able to avoid getting hit?

>}It's statistically unlikely that doubt this will ever happen to me.

>It's happened to me.

BTW, if I haven't said it before, there are more "unavoidable"
accidents out there that I'd originally stated in our thread from
years ago.  It took someone someone coming to a complete stop and then
accelerating into my car for me to truely grasp the ability of others
to cause accidents.  I gave them all credit for stupid, which is
generally avoidable, but the sheer numbers that fit my definition of
criminally neglegent is staggering.

I doesn't help that my current roomate is a habitual red-light runner.
He just flat doesn't pay atttention to the road and runs no less than
one stale red a week and at least one orange light a day.  And he
thinks I'm a bad driver...

Come to think of it, all of my friends of my age that don't race are
poor drivers.  There have been a few that complain about my driving,
at which time I ask them to pay attention to my driving and note every
law I break.  Generally, there is only one.  Then the next time I'm
riding with them, I point out their incomplete stops, lack of signals,
tailgating, speeding, red-light running, and so on.  But then they
claim that they can break all those safely.  But they generally don't
bring attention to my driving after I critique theirs.  They are the
people that have "unavoidable accidents" that they could have
prevented if they were competent.  

Too bad it isn't possible to get a good estimate of the true numbers
of these people in the general population.  It would be nice if the
driving standards were such that these weren't people that I'd have to
share the road with, but that would take most of the drivers off the
road, and they'd never let that go into effect.

Marc
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