Or, like being graduated from a crash course (the one that teaches to survive those).That sounds an awful lot like "drive slowly"
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As part of getting a licene in Norway, you have to attend a crash/awoidance course.
It can be a lot of things.
Being aware of traffic bunching up on the highway and not rushing to join the throng.
In my city, I try to avoid various intersections that have extremely bad blind corners, and to be cautious at some intersections where it's basically a rule that the opposite traffic direction's left turn lane red light is going to be ignored by the first 3 or 4 cars that are there at a light change.
As my father learned, to take cars' turn signals at an intersection with skepticism.
As I learned, to take sleep deprivation seriously.
Being aware of traffic bunching up on the highway and not rushing to join the throng.
In my city, I try to avoid various intersections that have extremely bad blind corners, and to be cautious at some intersections where it's basically a rule that the opposite traffic direction's left turn lane red light is going to be ignored by the first 3 or 4 cars that are there at a light change.
As my father learned, to take cars' turn signals at an intersection with skepticism.
As I learned, to take sleep deprivation seriously.
Damn, sorry to hear that! I pretty much totalled my 155 in a similar way (as in the few thousand it cost to fix it was more than the car was worth), hitting a small opel from the side while gliding on a wet road at just over 0 degrees centigrade and with no ABS. We were both going really slow by that time as we'd both braked (wish he hadn't, actually, I would have missed him
), much slower than you and my airbag stayed put, but even at a really slow speed you're quickly reminded of how heavy a car really is. It was completely my fault, I misread a sign on the road while in Dusseldorf (there were no other signs, something which I've personally never seen here, nor that kind of strange tic-tac-toe pattern of roads crossing each other) and I felt terrible. I've been sensitive to sounds of cars crashing (including Burnout for a while, lol) for a few years after! Hope you're well otherwise and the insurance doesn't give you a headache!
They don't use smokeless powder? Weird.
Here is my wrecked Subaru.
I am still in it, unconcious and bleeding heavily, lord knows what I hit my head on but I basically fractured half way around my skull.
It was an accident, the tire blew/deflated rapidly right on the bend you see in the background and the road is a 70 mph road lined with concrete walls so theres not much I could've done. It was all over in a flash.
It's hard to make out but in a nutshell where the engine and bonnet was in no longer there.
I am still in it, unconcious and bleeding heavily, lord knows what I hit my head on but I basically fractured half way around my skull.
It was an accident, the tire blew/deflated rapidly right on the bend you see in the background and the road is a 70 mph road lined with concrete walls so theres not much I could've done. It was all over in a flash.
It's hard to make out but in a nutshell where the engine and bonnet was in no longer there.
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I wasn't kidding when I said it is like a small solid rocket motor guys. If you've ever seen those hobby store rockets (.3-1 m in length) that can blast off using those cylindrical sold rocket motors then you've seen the same technology. It's a cylinder of propellant with a hole down the center that is ignited and burns very quickly from the inner diameter to the outer producing very fast inflation of the airbag.
