Re: 110mph in a 30mph zone!!

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:32:08 -0000, Ed Chilada <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:28:28 -0000, "Peter Hucker" <none@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:26:07 -0000, Ed Chilada <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:19:04 -0000, "Peter Hucker" <none@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:12:40 -0000, Ed Chilada <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:26:58 -0000, "Peter Hucker" <none@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:16:38 -0000, Ed Chilada <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So then do you not understand that speeding at 110mph in a 30mph zone
may well have dire consequences for yourself, even if the root cause
of the accident is not your fault?

In that scenario, if a kid steps out and you swerve or hit them spin
off, fly into a wall or somesuch, then:

cause of accident: the kid
cause of severity of outcome: you

I most certainly would not swerve into a wall to avoid someone who didn't look before crossing. I would swerve into an open area

At 110mph there's unlikely to be any kind of open area to swerve into
that wouldn't result in loss of control of your car.

Not if you swerve gently.

Into where?

Another lane. If none are available, brake. I avoided a pheasant at 85 mph this afternoon in fact.

Why bother, why not just hit it if it was stupid enough to not
understand the laws of the road?

Pheasants can't be expected to understand roads. Kids can. When I was at school we were taught the green cross code. What the *** are they doing in schools nowadays?

And at 110mph even the smallest swerve will result in a
large devation from route.

Then do an even smaller one.

Then you don't miss the obstacle. Think about how the route a car
takes around a cone on a track would be vastly different at 110mph as
it would at 30mph.

You swerve earlier.

or brake hard, but nothing more.

Nothing in what you say changes that the severity of outcome would be
entirely down to you. If the idea of killing a kid who makes a mistake
rather than managing to deal with it is OK for you to live with,

Why wouldn't it be? If it's the kid's fault, then I wouldn't feel guilty at all.

Yes you would, and perhaps largely because it wouldn't entirely be the
kid's fault - you doing 110mph would be the major factor in whether
the kid lives or dies.

A factor, but not the cause.

It's almost certainly the cause of the kid dying as opposed to just
being injured.

It may well increase the injury/death. But the accident would still be caused by them not looking where they're going.

if you're OK handling the lynch mobs that arrive at your door, then I
guess you'll be fine with it.

Only if there are witnesses.

If you hit a kid at 110mph there doesn't have to be witnesses. Even if
you manage to drive away (which is unlikely), there'll be a reasonable
amount of damage and body bits all over your car. You'll also leave
fragments of car at the scene too. You'll soon be caught and if you
decided to hit-and-run, you'll probably get strung up by the locals
too.

Then brush up the scrap bits and wash the car.

LOL! You think you're going to have time to do that? And you're going
to do that whilst the bits of child are around your ankles? haha, I
can just picture that happening...!

Even if you torched the car, there'd still be DNA on it. Paint
fragments in the child's remains, that sort of thing.

You seem to be applying intelligence to the detectives.

Still of course it isn't just pedestrians who make mistakes, it's
other drivers, in big cars and trucks. They'll sting when you plough
into them. Still, the accident will be their fault of course,
something you can perhaps rant about in your blog as you type one key
at a time with the stick attached to your head.

The faster I'm going the faster I can get out of the way.

Which of course makes no sense at all. The faster you're going the
less time you have to react and the less space/time you have for your
reaction to take effect.

If someone else is coming towards me on a collision course, the faster I'm going the faster I can move my vehicle out of their path.

Riiiiiight. And yet in your other post you reckon you haven't been
posting idiotic stuff?

Say you're driving at 20mph and a vehicle comes out of control towards you at 100mph. You don't stand a chance. Now picture it again but you're going 50mph. You have way more momentum to get out of the way without having to accelerate first.

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