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When someone is speeding they are more alert..... Dumbest thing I have heard in a long time.
I think he meant "more alert than when texting and driving" - which wouldn't be wrong but it also increases your stopping distance if you needed to suddenly stop which is a different kind of danger (which becomes more likely if you are driving faster than the average speed of the vehicles around you)
I think he meant "more alert than when texting and driving" - which wouldn't be wrong but it also increases your stopping distance if you needed to suddenly stop which is a different kind of danger (which becomes more likely if you are driving faster than the average speed of the vehicles around you)
I read the post twice. Let's wait for the poster to come back.
A five-dollar high stop light (HSL) aka third brake light flasher does wonders to make the tailgaters back off. Sold on Amazon. They go in series with the light, are about the size of Pink Pearl Eraser.
I like any idea that might keep me from being rear ended by distracted driver. I had another close call this morning while stopped in a work zone. Scared the hell out of me!
Had an accident in California in 2005 that almost totaled my car, but it was repairable. I still flinch when I look in the rearview mirror and see someone come up behind me too quickly.
I worry about driving in winter. My office requires me to report in most days. So I try to be careful but I worry about other drivers.
Had an accident in California in 2005 that almost totaled my car, but it was repairable. I still flinch when I look in the rearview mirror and see someone come up behind me too quickly
I heard tires squalling and when I looked back in the rear view a car slides by rear end first....black Corvette with older lady driving.
Both of these things are not good. Just because one might be better than the other doesn't excuse both. If you hit a pedestrian/cyclist going 45 mph, there's a 45% chance that they will be killed. If you reduce that speed down to 35 mph, there's only a 20% chance of a fatality. So that 5-10 mph does end up making a difference.
(I look at my phone only when I'm stopped at a signal for the record. I assume by your accusation that I would be a "liar" if I never looked at my phone while driving that you've done that?)
Absolutely I have (albeit very rarely but I have and I'm absolutely for making all phone usage illegal while driving). And so has everyone who has a smart phone (have to be clear that it's a smart phone since I actually know two people who only have a flip phone.).
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