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Agreed.

Also, if you're driving through areas with reasonable pedestrian traffic, and a clueless pedestrian or bicyclist moves into the road, you *seriously* reduce your ability to avoid them. All you can do if a vehicle is beside you is reduce your speed. Without an obstacle such as a vehicle beside you, you have the serious advantage of being able swerve as well as reducing your velocity.

This is *very* helpful when dealing with those pedestrians and cyclists who's parents never taught them to stay out of the road, to look for traffic before entering the roadway, or to wear light colored clothing when walking in the roadway at night. Some of the night time pedestrians around here can't be seen until you are almost on top of them because of their black attire. Ah well, if these pedestrians don't know any better, getting creamed by a vehicle is merely darwin rearing it's head.

I've been behind a semi when it shreaded it's tire, although I was fortunate to see it coming, so I was holding back a very long way. The guy in the SUV behind the semi wasn't so fortunate, nor did he adapt by slowing down or moving from behind the truck. Large chunks of metal and rubber went over and under, and I buttume, directly at, the tail gating SUVer. All I could do was laugh; it took about a mile for the semi's tire to completely separate from the rim.