"mazda616" (mazda616)
07/07/2016 at 15:12 • Filed to: Almost Crash
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"mazda616" (mazda616)
07/07/2016 at 15:12 • Filed to: Almost Crash | 2
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Ever had a time when you were all but certain that you were about to crash and then, miraculously, you don’t?
This morning, I’m driving the S10 (it had been over two weeks since I had driven it), and I am merging onto the four-lane highway that goes around town. The Ford Econoline driver in front of me literally locks up her brakes for no reason that I could see. I stomped the brake pedal in the S10 and gritted my teeth as I was prepared for the crunch of metal on metal, but thankfully, the S10s squeaky brakes work surprisingly well. I even felt the ABS kick in. Stopped about two inches short of the Econoline’s rear bumper.
Suffice it to say, I breathed about 17 sighs of relief after that.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 15:17 |
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Yeah. Not a fan of that feeling.
jvirgs drives a Subaru
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 15:23 |
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Been there before
Nibbles
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 15:29 |
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Once, on a whim, I took a backroad to get to Los Alamos in my 2001 Impala. That backroad turned out to be an over-glorified ATV trail. Determined, I soldiered along because god damnit, I wasn’t going to admit defeat.
Nearing town, the road sloped down at a pretty steep angle. The road was not much more than mud and slop. I was heading downhill at a decent clip when the road showed a sharp right-hand turn. I hit the brakes, didn’t make much of a difference. I approached the turn and turned the wheel, the car did not respond and continued to head into the trees. I finally came to a stop about six feet off the trail, right between two trees. The car was just slim enough to fit between the two with no damage
Rico
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 15:33 |
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Honestly nearly every single close call I’ve ever had involved someone slamming on their brakes FOR NO REASON AT ALL. Not a soul in front of them, not an object, no smoke billowing from the rear or from the engine bay. Nothing. Shit is beyond ridiculous.
As a matter of fact, I notice people braking for all the wrong reasons ALL the time.
RazoE
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 15:56 |
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Oh yeah. My Supra was turbo swapped, with all the goodies, it had no ABS, no traction control, no stability control, and a teenager at the helm. You can imagine how many times I went too fast and had to throw the anchor out. Never hit anything though!
gmctavish needs more space
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 16:09 |
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That's happened twice in my Blazer. One time was someone else's fault for pulling out, the other was my fault for getting distracted while looking for a junction I needed to turn at. Both times I was surprised by how effective those brakes are when you really need them, and extremely glad it wasn't raining or anything
Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 21:04 |
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Two years ago, I was driving east on E Pike St in Seattle (Capitol Hill neighborhood) in a car2go vehicle in the right lane. The lane to my left was heavily congested with a line of vehicles traveling my same direction, just much more slowly. Without any signal or warning, a large van abruptly darted from the left lane to the right lane, very nearly striking my door area as I passed by. I immediately stepped on the brake and blew the horn; I couldn’t swerve to the right because of the steady line of parked cars. Sure that there would be a collision, my first thought was: Will the damage exceed the deductible? Nevertheless, the driver of the van somehow corrected to the left before hitting me, and we both came to a stop with his front fender within a couple inches of my door/window. I flipped him off and continued on my way... in the right lane.
BayAreaMiataBoi
> mazda616
07/07/2016 at 22:37 |
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When my daughter was about 18 and needed a car for commuting, I let her use my ‘92 T-bird
barge
. Which I had updated with wider tires, adjustable Koni’s, and a much stiffer ride.
The first thing I taught her was to recover from slides in the wet parking lot, mostly to protect the car. I figured she would forget as soon as we were done. However. . .
Two+ years later, she is driving us all up Hwy 80 just East of Salt Lake City into a whiteout snowstorm in the Wasatch Mountains, on about 3 inches of snow. She tries to switch to the slow lane in the fully-laden Explorer, about 6500 pounds worth, and the rear end comes around. She applies the correct oppolock, and it fishtails toward the center of the road, while cars around us start slowing down to avoid hitting us. More oppolock, more fishtailing, and now we are going sideways in the slow lane, slowly drifting toward the guard rail, while she dials in more oppolock again. +++She catches it!!!+++
She pulls off to the side of the road, and announces “I’m done driving today.”