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**Infellgedq** · 01-13-2011, 08:41 PM

If, as you've been saying, you're driving too fast to stop in the road distance you can see, then it does.

I don't want to derail this thread any further so all I'll say is that I don't agree with the idea of driving slow enough on a motorway (highway) to guarantee that you can stop for anything that may be lying in the road. If there was a drunk person lying in the middle of the motorway when I'm doing 70, by the time I realise what it was and that it is in my lane it would probably be too late to stop. But I'm not going to start driving at 40 just so I can avoid this situation, because the chances of that happening is so small that it's not worth worrying about. If that makes me an idiot to you then that's fine. You'll probably have a pretty hard time finding a driver who you don't think is an idiot.

01-13-2011, 08:41 PM	#11
Infellgedq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	If, as you've been saying, you're driving too fast to stop in the road distance you can see, then it does. I don't want to derail this thread any further so all I'll say is that I don't agree with the idea of driving slow enough on a motorway (highway) to guarantee that you can stop for anything that may be lying in the road. If there was a drunk person lying in the middle of the motorway when I'm doing 70, by the time I realise what it was and that it is in my lane it would probably be too late to stop. But I'm not going to start driving at 40 just so I can avoid this situation, because the chances of that happening is so small that it's not worth worrying about. If that makes me an idiot to you then that's fine. You'll probably have a pretty hard time finding a driver who you don't think is an idiot.
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