“And it may not be because of your abilities to driving but the lack of those around you that lack them that can get you or yours hurt.”
It’s called defensive driving. One anticipates the other driver doing the unexpected. One of the reasons I drive a performance car.
“It’s called defensive driving.”
You are not driving defensively at 100 MPH on a public roadway unless you are the only person on it for miles in any direction and it has just been resurfaced and leveled out with no bump, holes, or access to pedestrians or animals and your equipment has been put 100%.
I read an article by Eddie Wren. He was a 14 year British Police office serving in traffic and trained as a police ‘advanced driver’ and ‘advanced motorcyclist,’ scoring the second highest test marks in the history of the force concerned. And after leaving the police force, appointed as the only north of England driver for a branch of the U.K. ‘National Health Service’ that organizes the delivery of donor organs. This necessitated driving at extreme speeds for long distances on public roads, but always with police clearance. In December 1999, he was featured in the UK ‘Volvo Magazine’ regarding his position in charge of training for the team of donor organ transportation drivers in Scotland. He has been driving this service in the US for the past 4 years. From the article:
Speed
Thinking
Distance 2
Braking
Distance
Overall
Stopping Distance
Comparisons
20 mph 20 feet 20 feet 40 feet
30 mph 30 feet 45 feet 75 feet
40 mph 40 feet 80 feet 120 feet
50 mph 50 feet 125 feet 175 feet
60 mph 60 feet 180 feet 240 feet
70 mph 70 feet 245 feet 315 feet
80 mph 80 feet 320 feet 400 feet
You’ll notice at 80 MPH, the average driver under normal reaction times, with no freeze up or panic, takes longer than a one and a third football fields to get the average vehicle stopped. And no amount of street legal vehicle can change physics. You can be as defensive as you think you are, but driving faster than everyone around you is capable of, is not defensive. It’s an open invitation for someone to make an error and kill all of you because they aren’t capable. And most aren’t. And most over rate their capacity.
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