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[AlphaWolf]

I'm sure they can bang that dent out for a few hundred bucks...

 

[Grall]

Nah, it just needs a buff.

 

[djskribbles]

 

[Sxotty]

To me it looks like this:
Ferrari coming from left, Ford about to enter the road
...Ferrari driver may have been speeding, but IMO it looks like the initiator of the accident was the Ford driver.

I agree with all that, but I have been in the position of the ferrari driver. I slammed on the brakes and laid down tire tracks and barely tapped the person in the old pickup turning onto the main road. Slam on the brakes, don't try to swerve into oncoming lane. That is a terrible idea most always.

 

[WhiningKhan]

Slam on the brakes, don't try to swerve into oncoming lane. That is a terrible idea most always.

I'm quite certain the Ferrari was _very_ close already when the Ford suddenly appeared to the road. When an object moves across your field of vision from the right, it is a natural reflex to swerve to left, since at that moment making a move to right would mean taking a course directly to the roadblock, and while your foot starts moving to brake, the whole incident is over before braking really even starts. This often happens in moose accidents, and I've experienced it myself (luckily with much smaller animals than moose). We can't do movement vector processing with the required response time without explicit training for that specific situation so that the correct course of action becomes a reflex.

 

[Gubbi]

I agree with all that, but I have been in the position of the ferrari driver. I slammed on the brakes and laid down tire tracks and barely tapped the person in the old pickup turning onto the main road. Slam on the brakes, don't try to swerve into oncoming lane. That is a terrible idea most always.

State of the art anti-lock-brakes.

Also, it's not like the Ferrari slammed into the Ford. The Ford just drove onto the front of the Ferrari, and both came to a halt. The Ferrari must have gone no faster than 5mph at the time of collision.

Cheers

 

[Sxotty]

I'm quite certain the Ferrari was _very_ close already when the Ford suddenly appeared to the road. When an object moves across your field of vision from the right, it is a natural reflex to swerve to left, since at that moment making a move to right would mean taking a course directly to the roadblock, and while your foot starts moving to brake, the whole incident is over before braking really even starts. This often happens in moose accidents, and I've experienced it myself (luckily with much smaller animals than moose). We can't do movement vector processing with the required response time without explicit training for that specific situation so that the correct course of action becomes a reflex.

I don't have explicit training I just know swerving is stupid. I had a friend who died from swerving. You are far better off even to hit a moose than to try to swerve at high speed and flip your vehicle when you drop a tire off the road, or crash into a tree. I saw a guy who hit a cow dead on and he was perfectly fine. If the hoof doesn't go through your windshield you are pretty safe. My wife knows the same though it took quite awhile to talk her into it especially since she likes the furry creatures (as do I to be honest). Slam on the brakes first, then when you slow down you can try to turn around the animal. It actually isn't that hard to talk yourself into it and it is way safer.

 

[Grall]

If you're about to strike a moose, aim at the ass end of the animal if at all possible, since there's less mass to worry about there. A moose can weigh 600 kg, you really don't want that through your windshield... (Especially the head of a bull with antlers and all of that...)

As for flipping, I guess that can be an issue with top-heavy american crap cars like vans, trucks and SUVs.

 

[Sxotty]

If you're about to strike a moose, aim at the ass end of the animal if at all possible, since there's less mass to worry about there. A moose can weigh 600 kg, you really don't want that through your windshield... (Especially the head of a bull with antlers and all of that...)

As for flipping, I guess that can be an issue with top-heavy american crap cars like vans, trucks and SUVs.

The car that flipped and killed my friend was a toyota camry. If you drop a wheel off the shoulder you can flip a car even if it isn't top-heavy.

 

[WhiningKhan]

I don't have explicit training I just know swerving is stupid. I had a friend who died from swerving. You are far better off even to hit a moose than to try to swerve at high speed and flip your vehicle when you drop a tire off the road, or crash into a tree. I saw a guy who hit a cow dead on and he was perfectly fine. If the hoof doesn't go through your windshield you are pretty safe. My wife knows the same though it took quite awhile to talk her into it especially since she likes the furry creatures (as do I to be honest). Slam on the brakes first, then when you slow down you can try to turn around the animal. It actually isn't that hard to talk yourself into it and it is way safer.

You missed the whole point I was trying to convey. Everybody (at least most people) knows what to do, but knowledge is worthless in sudden sub-second situations.

 

[Grall]

Whose instinct is to swerve into the oncoming traffic lane, especially as another car is turning out in front of you in that direction?

Only an idiot's, one who lacks common sense.

Stay on your own side of the street, for god's sake.

 

[John Reynolds]

Wife and I were out in the country at night back in 90 or 91 in my old 1986 Honda CRX and hit a deer. Fortunately I'd just turned a corner so my speed was fairly low, and I saw it coming. Saw something move in my left eye's peripheral, started tracking the motion, realized it was a deer that was on a collision course with me, so I braked hard. My little Honda clipped its back legs, flipping it over. It got up and ran off, no damage to the car either. But if I hadn't seen it I would've continued accelerating, probably plastering the poor thing and doing a good bit of damage to the car.

 

[Grall]

This won't be as much fun as it really is if you can't understand Norwegian...but whatever.

It's titled "Norwegian weather report".

 

[Grall]

 

[mito]

^^^ what type of media is that that was inserted in the computer? I saw two different sizes...
:|

 

[Grall]

I C whut u did thar!

 

[DuckThor Evil]

Maybe everyone has seen this, but it's still pretty cool.

 

[Grall]

That's just one really long commercial for horsepiss.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

That's just one really long commercial for horsepiss.

The first few have Red Bull stuff in them, so what? It's just a commercial because of that? Some of those jumps are pretty sick.

 

[Sxotty]

Yeah they are crazy. I appreciated it. I thought someone was going to pass kittinger's record though by a few thousand feet just to say they did it.