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    8 months ago

    Many people need a near death experience to teach them respect for the mass and energy involved in driving.

    I had a bad crash over a decade ago where somebody ran into me at low-ish speeds. It was head on though, and it was more than enough for me to remember for life. I wasn’t a bad driver or anything before that though.

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      8 months ago

      the best way to teach people how mass and inertia works in a car, is to put them in the passenger seat, get up to highway speeds, and then send the brake pedal to the floor.

      They won’t be able to breathe.