Just because I know threshold braking...
Aug. 27th, 2005 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfwings...does not mean the gal behind me does. That was the last thought I had, almost literally. "Oh shit... I had to max-brake there and barely made it... BRACE! *WHAM*crinzt*"
Eclipse is now about 3 inches more compact, and has a face like the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Northbound on the 405, number 1 lane, sudden slowdown. And I mean to the point I realized, "I don't have time to blink my brakelights to warn the person behind me. I have to actually slam on the brakes and try not to spin out," sudden.
I stopped with around a foot to spare. And as my car was settling back on it's rear wheels again... it got lifted up and forward so the passenger-side headlight got shoved back about a foot into the car by the driver-side rear bumper of the car in front of me.
The gal behind me had a face covered in blood, as was her shirt, and full airbag deployment in the front of the car with the front of her car shortered by about... 2 feet, by comparison to the 3-4 inches my rear bumper got crunched. Now it's all up to the insurance companies, which'll be akward since both she and I are AAA members and have AAA insurance.
But this proves that I can tell if I can stop in time. And that that has no bearing on if the person behind me can.
Eclipse is now about 3 inches more compact, and has a face like the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Northbound on the 405, number 1 lane, sudden slowdown. And I mean to the point I realized, "I don't have time to blink my brakelights to warn the person behind me. I have to actually slam on the brakes and try not to spin out," sudden.
I stopped with around a foot to spare. And as my car was settling back on it's rear wheels again... it got lifted up and forward so the passenger-side headlight got shoved back about a foot into the car by the driver-side rear bumper of the car in front of me.
The gal behind me had a face covered in blood, as was her shirt, and full airbag deployment in the front of the car with the front of her car shortered by about... 2 feet, by comparison to the 3-4 inches my rear bumper got crunched. Now it's all up to the insurance companies, which'll be akward since both she and I are AAA members and have AAA insurance.
But this proves that I can tell if I can stop in time. And that that has no bearing on if the person behind me can.
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Date: 2005-08-28 12:53 am (UTC)All that would have been needed here would have been a little bit of slippery asphalt.....or a short in the airbag mechanism...and it wouldn't have been just blood on that lady's face. Or she could have ended up with a cerberal hematoma, since the brain does not slow down at the same speed as the external physical frame does.
If you do not leave yourself and others that margin for error, then at some point things will come up snake-eyes. No one is immune from probabilities.
The morgue at my workplace is frequently full of the pets of those who thought otherwise. They took the chances of letting them out on the streets, of letting them eat stray objects.....and it didn't work out well.
I know we've spoken of personal change before, and how hard it is. But I would really rather not outlive you.