Maybe you’ve seen this on the news today but it is pretty incredible.
Amazingly the guy wasn’t seriously hurt.
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_138194910.html
Maybe I’ll ride a few more feet into the shoulder tonight.
Another stereotype substantiated … good job.
**Another stereotype substantiated … good job. **
Hey, it was a Toyota pickup, not a Ford…
And as for “riding a few more feet into the shoulder”—the guy that was hit was off the pavement entirely. Seems like some people while they are driving are drawn to other vehicles/people/objects when they are behind the wheel. It is the same phenomenon that occurs while driving down the freeway with little to no traffic on the road—a vehicle will zoom up from behind, presumably try to pass you, then just sit next to you doing the same speed. With no one else around. A gigantic pet peeve of mine.
**Another stereotype substantiated … good job. **
Va Meng Vang … ???
What stereotype is that?
Seems like some people while they are driving are drawn to other vehicles/people/objects when they are behind the wheel.
What happens is that the driver unconsciously steers towards whatever he’s looking at. The car follows the eyes.
**What happens is that the driver unconsciously steers towards whatever he’s looking at. The car follows the eyes. **
That makes a lot of sense, since we’re always taught on the bike or while running on technical trails, etc., to look where you want to go as opposed to looking at things you want to avoid. Sometimes the mind isn’t fast enough to add “don’t” in front of “run into that”…
Kind of like saying to someone “don’t think of a pink elephant”.
What stereotype is that?
“Asians are lousy drivers.”
Of course, there are also …
“Women are lousy drivers”
“The French are lousy drivers”
“Fat people are lousy drivers”
“Old people are lousy drivers”
“People from New Jersey are lousy drivers”
The way it’s been explained to me, the only GOOD drivers are physically fit WASP men from Long Island.
I must be missing the joke.
I don’t know if it works this way everywhere, but around here, the police/state patrol ALWAYS park on the shoulder, but with the nose of their car partially INTO the roadway. Notice that the report says that the truck “nicked” the patrol car before careening off the road. My thoughts are that, had the patrol car not been IN the road, none of this would have happened.
Just some conjecture…
My thoughts are that, had the patrol car not been IN the road, none of this would have happened.
FWIW, cops park that way (assuming your talking about when they’ve pulled someone over) to provide some protection for the cop as he talks to the driver he’s pulled over.
I know that. Doesn’t make it any safer for the person driving by it (or riding, as I’m forced WAY out into the roadway).
As someone who drives an emergency vehicle on a daily basis I can tell you that every time we have to stop on the road it is another moment of taking our lives in our hands. We park our vehicles in such a way as to try and provide ourselves at least a slight chance at safety. Sorry that this is an inconvenience, but we gotta protect our lives and those of the people we are caring for.
The simple solution is for people to slow down for just a minute as they pass the scene, and pay attention to what they are doing instead of rubbernecking and driving right into us. Problem is that people won’t inconvenience themselves for 30 seconds for our safety, or they will crane their necks so hard to get a look that they will cause another accident. Can’t tell you how many times at the scene of the accident the sound of screaching tires causes us to duck for our lives. That is some serious pucker factor.
Mark