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Old 07-27-2016, 02:16 PM   #102 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
Disagree! Rear crash avoidance is a basic defensive technique taught to 16 year-olds. (By good driving schools.)
Explain just what you can do, please. Cars to either side, so you can't move that way. If you go ahead, you hit (or are hit by) the cross traffic - and become legally at fault, too.


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I've used it once in my life - to avoid becoming paste on the front of a semi that barelled too fast into a freeway construction zone bottleneck stop, tire smoke billowing from its locked wheels.
Different situation, no?
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