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Originally Posted by UltArc
Those moments the key is not in the on position are when there can be issues. I don't judge others, as I have driven, pulled my key out, reached my lock box, opened it, and put the key back in and ON- so no judgment, but learning how easy a KS is for a dope like me, EOC is so much safer and better. Keep all safety, and don't lose any miles.
The risk is what can happen in that moment. Driving to GGP2014, a possum ran into the road in front of me. My navigator wasn't buckled in, and was repositiong, and I thought he busted his head open from the swift natural reaction. Had I been keying off then, I could have locked the wheel, and who knows. What if it was a deer?
Is it LIKELY? No. Is it entirely possible? Absolutely. The thing is, IF it happens, it will be bad. Will the seat belt lock?Air bags? Onstar? Any other things working in the background I don't even realize? I don't plan my life to live in the 99%, I plan to survive the 1%. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. But that's me.
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Yeah, I see where you're coming from, but...I'm still not seeing how keying off is an unacceptable risk while other things, like your passenger not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car, or the possibility of being t-boned by a drunk driver, or rear-ended at a stoplight by an ignorant texter, or fiddling with the radio, or changing a tire on the side of a busy road, or myriad other things that can and do distract us and go wrong with our cars, other cars, and other drivers, and which are all so routine we tend not to give them a moment's thought when we start up our cars, are all
acceptable risks.
Of course there's risk there--there's risk in anything. But in context, that risk seems, to me at least, to be pretty darn small.