In message , Cynic
writes
>On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:50:29 +0100, Norman Wells
> wrote:
>>>
>>>I would be able to see the other vehicle and in almost all cases
>>>anticipate the situation.
>>
>>What with? X-Ray vision?
>
>That clinches it. You obviously do not drive, otherwise you would be
>very familiar with how much you can and cannot see of the road ahead
>of the vehicle in front of you.
Not so. I've probably been driving longer than you.
>
>In fact, I checked it specifically yesterday morning on the drive to
>work. I had a large Tesco lorry in front of me, and I closed up
>deliberately to a 2 second gap. I had plenty sufficient glimpses of
>the road for a distance in front of that lorry to know whether there
>was any other traffic ahead, and that was without weaving from side to
>side.
Indeed. You have 'glimpses', and from those you know that other traffic
exists in front of the lorry. What you cannot know from glimpses,
however, is what that traffic is doing or going to do. However, you
need to be able to monitor it continuously if you claim, as you do, that
you can react in time to something that happens in front of the lorry
rather than just to the lorry itself.
If you can't do that, and you're driving within the overall stopping
distance from the lorry, you're an accident waiting to happen.
--
Norman Wells
NG
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