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“Which means he wasn’t allowing himself enough stopping distance. By definition.”

I had a car directly in front of me get clipped by a car pulling out. Spun him 90 degrees and then into a barrier. Pretty decent crunch. Even though the car in front of me was going sideways for a bit, I had no problem stopping - my only concern was stopping slow enough to not get rear-ended (thankfully I didn’t).

Needless to say, I always have and always will make a point of not following too closely. No matter how fast one’s reflexes are or how good their brakes are, it simply is not possible to slow down a car quickly enough to handle a car going sideways in front of you - they will slow down 10 times faster.

Don't forget massive unemployment, caused by a flood of illegals taking all the jobs that might be otherwise filled by youth & blacks - part of the plan.

That is a concern. My way of dealing with that is to try to stay in the slower lanes as much as possible. I'm not a naturally slow driver, and have to watch my speed, which means I do a lot of careful and prudent lane changing to pass on the left and then move back over to the right. I don't tail-gate and for the most part don't get tail-gated.

No system is perfect, however, and there are going to be accidents, which brings me to my second pet peeve:

WTF with the airbags???

If we all wear seatbelts, why do we need to ride around with explosive devices installed in front of our faces???

It's not just what happened to this poor girl (and my heart goes out to her)... even properly belted and seated passengers (like a friend of mine) can be permanently injured (hearing) in a low-impact crash by those stupid f-ing airbags.

Once again we are all victims of the Liberal Nanny State and no one is even talking about this.

my only concern was stopping slow enough to not get rear-ended

That is a concern. My way of dealing with that is to try to stay in the slower lanes as much as possible. I’m not a naturally slow driver, and have to watch my speed, which means I do a lot of careful and prudent lane changing to pass on the left and then move back over to the right. I don’t tail-gate and for the most part don’t get tail-gated.

No system is perfect, however, and there are going to be accidents, which brings me to my second pet peeve:

WTF with the airbags???

If we all wear seatbelts, why do we need to ride around with explosive devices installed in front of our faces???

It’s not just what happened to this poor girl (and my heart goes out to her)... even properly belted and seated passengers (like a friend of mine) can be permanently injured (hearing) in a low-impact crash by those stupid f-ing airbags.

Once again we are all victims of the Liberal Nanny State and no one is even talking about this.