(OT) Re: [Shotimes] Almost death by SUV

[Noah South III]

Every few months this tends to come up, as I'm sure you all know.  And
there's really only one impartial, realistic, and for lack of a better word,
REAL explanation for all of it.  Ron hit it right on the head.  Life isn't
fair.  This is reality, there's no script and most people are unpaid extras.
You can't kill all the idiots, because eventually you'll be the idiot since
intelligence is a relative term.  Sure, it's not like I haven't made a list
of people I'd like to put a .22 right behind the ear, but in reality that
isn't going to solve anything.  There are stupid people out there of all
kinds.  The ignorant type would be the biggest group, but that's only
because ignorance is a nice catch all.  You can't do anything about them as
a whole, you can't change the way they think, you can't kill them off, you
can't even deport them to a small island in the south pacific scheduled for
chemical weapon testing.

So look at it this way, only involve yourself with the ones that affect you
and interfere with you directly.  If someone crashes into your car because
they did something stupid and hurts you or your family, be sure you drag
them out of their vehicle and do whatever to make sure they can't do that
again.  If you're afraid of ramifications, find them a few months down the
line and take care of them without leaving any evidence.  It's not about
teaching a lesson, or making someone learn, because that only happens in
movies, not in real life.  If everyone would do this, it would ease the
problem of the mass of stupid people even more.  And hey, if you mess up and
do something stupid, just remember you brought it on yourself.  If there's
anything worse than ignorance and stupidity, it's not taking responsibility
for your own actions.

-Noah South III

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: <BJamesjr@aol.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 8:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Almost death by SUV


> On a more serious note, I don't totally agree with your statement about
"No
> telling how many deaths could be prevented if every car was as capable and
> responsive as an SHO". Good-handling cars can cause as many problems as
they
> solve.  Bad driver scan screw things up with an SUV or an ordinary
vehicle.
>
> It seems almost weekly where there is a crash where someone drops a wheel
> off the pavement, then overcorrects and flies across the road to doom.
With
> a good-handling car, you cross the median and get into a head-on
bloodbath.
> With a top-heavy SUV, you roll over soon after getting back on the roadway
> in your direction of travel. No one may even get injured with the SUV
> rollover, but a head-on is gonna be ugly, This is pure driver
incompetence,
> everyone is taught to not crank the wheel when this happens, but they do
it
> anyway.
>
> As has been said, there is nothing wrong with SUVs, Talking on the phone,
> etc, but it's how you deal with it as a driver.
>
> Frankly, I'm very tired of the SUV bashing, particularly when it's done by
> car enthusiasts.  They are very useful vehicles that serve practical
needs.
> Of course they don't handle like a Porsche.........but neither does a SHO,
a
> Saturn, a minivan, or a Buick LeSabre. Drivers who aren't aware enough to
> adjust to their vehicle and driving conditions deserve what they
> get......it's called "thinning the herd".....the only downside is that
> innocent people get taken out with them. But, there's also a couple of
terms
> that explains this phenomena: (1) Life's a bitch, and then you die, and
(2)
> Life is not fair.
>
> Today's SUV's handle and brake better than many sports cars from 30+ years
> ago. Doesn't matter, as driver capabilities have not gotten any better.
> Studies were done years ago that show that most drivers never corner
harder
> than 0.20 Gs, as that's when they start to feel "uncomfortable". Pretty
much
> shows that they advances in vehicle handling are well beyond the bulk of
the
> drivers that we share the roads with.
>
> Ron Porter