Having had it happen to me I don’t understand it either, I don’t know how he had time but I was in a, stop now or people will die, situation and I’m ashamed to say I really panicked and didn’t know what to do so I asked my 12 year old son and he said, “Shut it off.”, and I did.
I panic in situations, too, and my daughter, now 25, has always had a cooler head than I, even when she was much younger. But I understand what you did. I don’t understand what he did. Was your situation a Prius?