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Originally Posted by westopher
Yeah..... the problem though is everyone thinks that. Ask someone if they are a good driver that knows their limits and see how many say no. As I said though, all it takes is one mistake. I've fucked up before and popped my car in a ditch in my lifetime, all it takes is some bad luck and its on a different section of road on an opposite bend and I'm in oncoming traffic in front of a truck coming at me at 100km/h. It's a simple fact of shit happens, and it did.
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And let's not forget, while 100km/h may give you "X" seconds to react to a STATIONARY obstacle appearing in front of you... if the obstacle is oncoming at another 100km/h, you now have "X/2" seconds to react (assuming the other driver does nothing).
In a sharp, blind corner like we're talking about here, even if you WERE able to regain control your vehicle, there's a good chance you'd barely have time to even register the oncoming truck, nevermind react to it. I don't care how much training your have or how quickly you can respond to a situation, there's still a limitation on how fast the human sensory system can receive and process the event before that response even starts.
People just don't realize how fast something can happen. First time I ever "crashed" a car was my little GLC, on a snowy dirt road back home... came around a tight turn that I'd done a hundred times before, but this time my right front wheel managed to catch the snowbank in the ditch... and no amount of training would have helped from there: the snow literally sucked the wheel in, the back end came around, the left-rear wheel caught a rock in the road, and in less than two seconds beginning-to-end, the car was on its roof, my brother and I hanging by our seatbelts. We were probably doing 20km/h MAX when it happened, so no real harm done (dented roof, busted windshield), but once the snowbank had that wheel, our fate was set - I felt the wheel pull out of my hand, I felt the car go sideways, and then I felt the seatbelt digging into me.