So now we are looking it as gambling? You pays your money and you takes your chances.
200,000 traffic accidents in Florida in a year, most of them avoidable, That’s a lot of expensive paint and body work.
2,430 killed as a result of those traffic accidents.

How many won the state lottery last year?

David not scared but trying to be honest

Regardless, the odds are stacked way against anything like Bob Hudson or you are so concerned about.

Except that blowouts DO happen every day. Further, an alert driver can continue to control the vehicle while stopping without ramming and killing the people coming toward him. An alert driver might even notice signs of an impending blowout ere it happened.

Of course, if he’s busy doing other things at the time and kills an entire family due to his reduced attention, he can always say it was the Lord’s will, that it was just their time, that he couldn’t reasonably be expected to be paying sufficient attention to something which happens to somebody several times everyday.

Most driving fatalities are avoidable. They didn’t HAVE to happen. But I guess cautious drivers who look out for other people are scaredy cats to be mocked and belittled. I guess we’ve gone from superman to predestination to justify safety infractions. Why don’t we just admit we don’t care if we kill others?

David for truth

Bob, it’s obvious from your posts that you are one of the frightened people that watches too much news now you’re asking me a hypothetical question about what am I going to do when my front tire blows out?

The answer is NOTHING because it ain’t gonna happen except to one in a hundred thousand people. And if you’re unlucky enough to be on the opposite end of THAT bit of odds, well buddy it’s just your time, that’s all I can say.

Oh I AM right.

Most drunks assure you they’re great drivers, too. They think they are. Unlike them, YOU may be right. Come to think of it, many people involved in collisions also assure you THEY were good drivers, that it was the OTHER driver which got in their way.

A big part of driving is keeping track of the other drivers. Studies have shown the human brain has limited ability to process information; that given two tasks, they don’t actually do either as fast as they would do either single task.

Driving and talking are two different tasks. A normal human being has reduced response time when driving and talking, similar in fact to that of drunks. (Notice I’m not even talking about handling two different objects such as a steering wheel and a cell phone, just the process of talking and driving. It doesn‘t really even matter if you’re talking on a cell phone or just to the people sitting beside you. Distractions slow response times.)

Their recommendation isn’t for supermen, just for normal folks. They made it based on saving lives. If saving lives is less important than cell phone conversations, so be it. Let’s just be honest about the matter.

David for normal people and living

So the majority are going to be penalized because a few are incompetent.

That’s the American way, isn’t it? We like to live our lives in fear of something that MIGHT happen (but which statistically will probably never happen), so we go overboard to ensure that it doesn’t EVER happen.

America, the land of the frightened.