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Originally Posted by gascort
I hear you there too - My escort is much lower than my Mustang, and I corner as hard (or harder) in it as I do in the 'stang. I have a couple of onramps where I get people behind me in sports cars going in, but they don't trust their car in outhandling the eco-mobile in front of them. Funny.
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Here's the thing about that - once again, most drivers don't know how to properly approach a curve. Everyone knows that the inside of a curve is the shortest path, but they don't understand that just staying inside the curve is almost never the
best path.
This is part of the reason that I'd prefer legislation which requires new drivers to partake in both a defensive driving course (I think NYS does this?) as well as a control/avoidance course, to teach things such as high(er) speed curve management. You never really realize how handy that type of training can be until you get into a situation where if you'd only known how to properly counter-steer (the action isn't as clean-cut as the title implies), you'd have been safe from harm, and maybe could have saved the life of the other person involved in the accident (regardless of fault).
If nothing else, high-speed training
does give you a different type of appreciation for exactly what's happening while you're driving. The series of thoughts and events that are processed while operating a motor vehicle are much more complex than people tend to understand.
Of course, I also firmly believe that one should be able to at least perform basic maintenance before even being able to get an operator's license. I made my wife learn to change a tire, change oil, and check her brakes/fluids, at the minimum.