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In article <3A5D30CB.F212EFD2@alaska.net>,
Scott Aleckson  <aleckson@alaska.net> wrote:
>Being one who's had extensive driver's training (high school, military, fire
>department), I know enough about driving my truck that I don't put it into a
>condition where there is a risk of rollover.  

   If you drive it on public roads, you put it in a condition where there is
   a risk of rollover.  The risk may be small, and you may drive so as to 
   minimize it, but it will always be there, and will always be higher 
   than if you were in a vehicle with a lower center of gravity.

   To take just one example; you are driving down a street with an 
   intersecting road to your right.  Could be a driveway, a side-street,
   doesn't matter.

   There is a car stopped, waiting to cross your path.

   This is a 'condition' where there is risk of rollover, for any 
   vehicle.  If the car pulls out in front of you, and you cannot stop in
   time, there are a few rollover scenarios.  You may try to make a
   rapid double-lane change, which is the prototypical rollover scenario.

   You may choose not to evade, but simply to whack the other car.  This
   might be the best choice, but you still risk getting T-boned and 
   knocked over, or running one wheel up on the offending vehicle and
   going over; depending of course on the size, height, speed and 
   position of the vehicles in question.

   Almost all of these risks will increase with your vehicle's height of CoG.
   
>I disagree completely.  Back in my day we had driver's education as a 
>mandatory class in high school.  
   
   I took it in high school too, although it was optional.  The only 
   benefit was the seat time, we learned little to nothing in the class
   sessions, or even from the instructor in the car.  It should be done
   better than that.

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