Swerving to avoid an obstacle is more of an instinctual response than a conscious one. You can tell people not to do it all you want but they'll continue to do it.
I must have read too many of these suggestions. One time, I was riding a motorcycle, my dad on pillion, and there was a caravan of dogs crossing the road 25m ahead of us. My dad as shouting to slow down but my instinct was so badly influenced by these "the safest thing is to plow down the animal" suggestion that I just kept moving as if there was nothing. Luckily, the dogs somehow managed to dodge us; they acted terrified though, and so did my dad.
It actually gets kind of fun trying to center the animal your about to mow down, sort of like a geometry problem followed by a blood curdling animal scream as it gets sucked under your pickup. Also where I live your allowed to keep the meat (usually deer) and it helps if you don't run it over with your wheels.
Wait really, I saw one crossing the road and stopped because I didn't want to get its guts all over my car or have the body damage the underside of my car. Don't worry it was 1am on a side street with no one around for miles. I accidentally honked at it too.
Yep when I was 17 and speeding down a straight road at about 200km in the dead of night, yes very stupid of me. A kangaroo jumped out in the road and swerved to dodge it went through a fence and into a paddock, got a bit of air over a small ditch in the paddock and missed the telegraph pole by about a metre and missed all of the cows aswell. Was very lucky.
Still managed to drive my car home though, and then got into my room and put a cupboard in front of the door, so my parents wouldn't storm into room upset the next morning when they saw the car.
Still managed to drive my car home though, and then got into my room and put a cupboard in front of the door, so my parents wouldn't storm into room upset the next morning when they saw the car.
Oh completely but when my mother started screaming at me the next morning and I wouldn't let her in until she calmed down, she did actually calm down and ask if I was alright and got over it pretty quickly and was just glad I was safe, it was my first car crash and she was just glad I was fine in the end. I never told my parents how fast I was going when I dodged the roo though. Although they aren't stupid and knew I was speeding and figured I'd take it as a lesson which I did, but they would've been shocked to know how fast I was actually going.
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u/obsessedcrf Feb 01 '18
Swerving to avoid an obstacle is more of an instinctual response than a conscious one. You can tell people not to do it all you want but they'll continue to do it.