>> The most frightening thought is I couldn't tell you now how far, if at all,
>> I went on to the other side of the road, so I might not have
>> felt so smart had you been there with your wagon load of graded grains...
Wouldn't have happened like that MT, if the beasty had been there you would already have factored for it when calculating your escape/avoidance route.
Fantastic thing the brain really, just how many calculations the experienced driver can juggle and instantly update them as the expected sequence changes.
Its situations like you avoided today makes me think that driverless vehicles will never become normal, just too many variables.
Cliffs post rang bells with me, i've taken more braking and evasive action in town and local driving in the last few years than in a lifetime previously, reflects the uncaring selfish me only attitude of the times as well as the infuriating incompetence of the lemmings at the wheel.
It does happen now and again with the lorry but not to the same extent, (except for other lorry drivers where there is a growing minority of chimps at the wheel), jusy as well really there's little in the way of evasive action to be taken especially loaded, its going in a straight line if it doesn't stop, tough.
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