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So? You didn’t respond to them when they were here. You’re either against what you call “stereotypes,” or you’re not. Why were you afraid to respond to them while they were here?
Ugh.
Ugh. **
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Brilliant!!!
The difference in stopping distance at 60 MPH between a sports car and SUV is about 20 feet. Since you cannot even see the street between your bumper and about 12 feet out, if you are that close you are an ass asking for trouble.
I am more often tailgated by little rice burners. I submit that the tiny car drivers are the potential Darwin Award candidates.
The stopping difference between a SUV and sports car at 60 MPH is plus or minus, also, the same as between bad and good roads.
Stay safe. Know where everything is, relative to you. Remember, if you have to, you can use the shoulder or the oncoming lane.
Technically, the words are English.
Well, relative to me, the SUV driver is so close to my bumper that I can see the goat-felching stains on his beard in my rear-view mirror.
And driving with the oncoming lane as an option is just the type of idiocy we all expect from E-Sabbath.
Unless you got an SUV. Then you just drive over the chump in the little car.
Just kidding - bad joke - 7 pages is not enough
not a joke:
Lets see, we have a few options here:
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Crash
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Drive in to the oncoming lane to avoid a crash
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Traffic in oncoming lanes so use the shoulder
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Do what E-Sabbath said and be aware/be safe
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Do nothing - just crash. After all if there is a SUV in the area
the crash can be attributed to the presence of the SUV.
<classic Monty Python> " This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E’s off the twig! 'E’s kicked the bucket, 'e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! He’s fckin’ snuffed it!.. THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!"* </classic MPFC>
A better alternative would be not to follow so closely that you have to bail out. E-Sabbath made it sound like the opposing lane was a fine and dandy alternative.
Let’s say, for example, you are forced off the road and hit a construction worker. If you are in, say, a VW Passat there is a chance that the worker will simply bounce off and over the hood. In a large SUV the tendency is, ah, squash and crush.
Based on a true story.
Also, stopping distance arguments are not tied to rear end collisions and tailgating. I’ve had to stomp on my brakes as much from idiots pulling out, abrupt lane changes, I-just-stole-it turns, crazy passing, cell phone swervers, etc. I cannot believe that anyone does not see the immediate difference between being able to stop from 70 MPH in 157 feet versus 244 feet. Infiniti G35 versus Hummer H2. I can only imagine the difference from 80. Yet, I’m sure every day morons drive their H2s at 80 thinking it is as at least as capable as an average car.
Keep in mind disparities in stopping distance go up with speed.. 10 feet at 60 goes up significantly by 70. It is an arithmetic or geometric relationship it is not a linear difference.
Let me put my super special clear vision goggles on. OK.
Now E-S said “Stay safe. Know where everything is, relative to you. Remember, if you have to, you can use the shoulder or the oncoming lane.”
With the benefit of my special goggles I may deduce that the “stay safe” part means don’t tail gate and the “if you have to, you can” part means when all else fails.
The worker will be able to let the SUV pass over him without touching - even safer than the hit in the VW - Ha!!!
The little car may drag the road side worker where the SUV may bump her out of the way - Ha Ha!!!
As far as some idiot pulling out in front of an SUV compared to an Infiniti. What if the offending person pulls half way out sees the Infiniti, delays for ONE SECOND, then goes? A - another 80 to 90 feet of road lost and the Infiniti crashes - There is no way to prevent accidents!!! That is why they are called accidents.
What if we put the Infiniti next to a Vette? Is the Infiniti now to be considered a dangerous vehicle?:smack:
What about red cars vs gray cars? You know it is harder to see the gray car. Maybe we should ban them.
Don’t worry about it, B&I, Pucky doesn’t know what bowling is, either. He’s got some sort of disorder where he can’t follow a train of thought past the first comma, let alone through an entire sentence.
On the other hand, you’d be surprised how many people try to panic stop, lock up, and skid into the car in front of them, when there’s a perfectly good shoulder, or even a second lane of the highway, to swerve onto.
Pucky, Pucky, Pucky. You seem to be an intelligent sort – at least, you can compose coherent sentences – and yet, you fail to grasp the obvious.
Contrary to your apparently inflated opinion of me, I don’t monitor every single thread on the board. I didn’t start posting to this thread until it had reached three and a half pages. Even then, my initial posts were responses to Rubystreak, who was spouting nonsense about patriotism and our reliance on foreign oil. That was the handiest target of ignorance.
This may come as a shock to you, but until that point, I didn’t care much about this thread. Hadn’t even opened it. Because, based on the title of the thread, I assumed you were ranting about one particular driver. I didn’t realize you were stereotyping everyone who drove an SUV. Had I known that, I certainly would have jumped in here earlier to dispel your ignorance – a task which is certainly taking longer than I had thought. (Now where have I heard that before?)
I haven’t seen the vast majority of folks who posted on the first three pages of the thread show up since. If they do, I will certainly try to dispel any ignorance they display. Heck, I even gave you the benefit of the doubt – my first direct response to you was an attempt to clarify why you were ranting in the first place.
I’m interested in your theory, though. Based on what you’re saying, I’m afraid to directly confront the other folks who posted in this thread. And yet I’m not afraid to cross swords with you. What does that say about you, hmm?
Just curious – why would you voice disgust (“Ugh.”) at my statement regarding tailgating?
And right after that he gets up, dust himself off and gives you a thumbs up right?
:peeks in:
Nope nothing original, interesting or relevant yet.
Please resume whatever it is you all are doing here in this pathetic waste of bandwidth thread.
Well, it was a slightly different finger I extended, but yes.
I’ve had some fun times with cars, as a pedestrian/cyclist. As a pedestrian, I used to be a Rapid Response Server Repair specialist in NYC. The drivers there are… well, there you go. I’ve bounced off cars, occasionally, and once I got my wristwatch caught on a bus and dragged.
As a cyclist, I had endless amounts of light entertainment with the one-lane cycle path that was off limits to cars. And the drunk bastards that would drive down it. Including one time I was stuck on a bridge and had a choice of corvette or gully, and partially rode over the car. The rear wheel of the bike went through the windshield, though, on the second bounce, and it got ugly after that. I only needed a new rear wheel and tire, though, and some handlebar readjusting.
I am not saying it is safe to do that. I am saying that, yes, it is possible to be hit by a car at reasonably high speeds, and not sustain much more than a broken leg, bruises, or even just scratches. The bike incident, I had a heavy coat on, and a helmet and gloves. Split the helmet like an egg.
Sing it with me:
Mentos, fresh and full of life
Sure and this isn’t a waste either?
No, this is the new contender.
Many happy hours await.