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Originally Posted by n0nsensical
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The only joke is the fact that your two posts on this thread are understandable given your nickname. Perhaps the lightheartedness is somewhat appreciated but try not to be offensive or i'll cease taking you seriously regardless of how old you are. It would be great if I stereotyped you left right and centre for being older than me but I won't.
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
I recently got into a spot of trouble while coming down a slightly snowy hillside. Was I going the appropriate speed? I was going well below it, actually. Do I know how to drive in snow? Yes, I've done it many times. Had I downshifted to help control my speed? Absolutely. Yet despite all of my precautions, my car went into a skid. I controlled the skid as best I could but still ended up in a snowbank. All of my passengers will agree with me when I say I did my best given the conditions and the situation. Was there anything purposeful about it? Absolutely not. There is no way I could have predicted my car would have gone into a skid, and I did absolutely everything I could to prevent it (short of putting on chains). Therefore it was--gasp!--an ACCIDENT.
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Okay, okay, i'll agree with you that there exist accidents which are unavoidable. You're wrong about hydroplaning though; it can be avoided by going slower. I think if that amount of rain was coming down I would be going slow enough to avoid hydroplaning because my visibility out of the windshield would be greatly reduced!
One of my other friends managed to total his dad's bronco by hitting black ice, skidding into the other lane, and hitting a mercedes(thank goodness for insurance). My sister was in a van with her friend, and the friend drove right into the side of a small truck when pulling away from a stop sign. My best friend's mom ran into a guy from behind when a red light was turning green and she misjudged his speed because he didn't have any brakelights(or insurance, so he had to pay her cash, but it still clearly wasn't totally his fault). My other friend had a surprise when he was driving after a rainfall and slid about 10 feet due to the oil in the road bleeding out. Believe me, I've seen my share of driving mishaps. I guess i'm just tired of people calling everything an "accident" when most of it is easily avoidable. I think that probably about 90% of "accidents" could be avoided if people kept more space around their vehicle and slowed down a little. It's as if they're making a decision to drive bad, and i'd hardly consider that an accident. An accident is when you wet your bed because you can't subconsciously control your uterine muscles while you sleep, it's not when you hit someone from behind because you were driving too fast and didn't think your car would take that long to stop in bad weather.
Also, I've had my G1 since I was 16, so it's not like I sat behind the wheel for the first time yesterday. My dad has been driving for 45 years and he has tried to teach me everything he knows. You of all people, being 2 years older, shouldn't be talking down like that to me, and even for someone who was much older it wouldn't be appreciated/relevant. What I'm talking about has nothing to do with driving experience and everything to do with driver intelligence.