Just because I know threshold braking...

...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.

Maybe everyone will actually read this post...

Eclipse is wrecked.

I'm okay aside from some bruises.

Guess what I learned? Guess what I spelled out, as blatantly as I could in the last post? That just because I can do something, does not mean the other guy driving another vehicle that has a possible physical interaction with my car can accomplish the same thing. And that implies the reverse, or I thought it did when I wrote it and didn't think to attach the vice-versa tag. Just because someone else can do something, doesn't mean that I can either. And guess who just had a very quiet weekend to think about all this, because my accident happened less than 4 hours after I woke up on my 'Saturday' began?

Thank you. And yes, I'm writing this to avoid writing a lot of duplicate entries, and this is also written with very little thought because I woke up in time to go to work tonight, and have to leave immediately to do so so can't take the time to make individual replies to everyone's comments on my original post seperately.