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Glad you avoided the crunch, but I must disagree that in a car it would have been unavoidable. If everyone would obey the "2 second rule" on following distance there would be few rear-enders.Harold said:Immediately everyone in fornt of me jammed on the brakes and resulted in a four car rear ender. I calmly did the emergency evasive manouver taught in the MSF course and bailed to the left thus riding away unscather. In a car it would have been unavoidable.
True. But that just isn't the case in most urban areas of the USA that I have ridden in. People not only follow to close, but they talk on their cell phones at the same time, distracting their mind from driving. It's not a good situation, and it is all too typical.Brian said:If everyone would obey the "2 second rule" on following distance there would be few rear-enders.
Yeah, I can't believe the stuff I see sometimes...cell phones are bad, but I've seen people steering with their knees while they eat a bowl of cereal in the moning, people reading while driving, even sexual activity of different kinds (I won't go into detail).pauljo said:True. But that just isn't the case in most urban areas of the USA that I have ridden in. People not only follow to close, but they talk on their cell phones at the same time, distracting their mind from driving. It's not a good situation, and it is all too typical.