On 2/21/2012 11:28 PM, Jack wrote:
On 2/22/2012 12:11 AM, Steve Turner wrote:
On 2/21/2012 9:59 PM, Steve Barker wrote:
On 2/21/2012 9:07 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:30:31 -0600, Steve Barker
wrote:
On 2/21/2012 11:36 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:35:13 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:
Jack wrote:
I'm still thinking it would be nicer if Big Brother mandated NASCAR
approved crash helmets for every dumb ass riding in a car. The fact
that 40,000 deaths occur every year from auto accidents vs 4,000
fingers wreaking havoc on masturbating saw owners doesn't seem to
affect their all knowing niceness.
Well - that really wouldn't work too well Jack. Deaths in NASCAR
are seldom
related to helmet protection, and in real life, would be about on
par. The
forces that result in both NASCAR deaths and in real world car
accident
deaths, are not well related to helmet use.
Helmets in cars would INCREASE accident rates by a very large margin.
Peripheral vision is severely diminished, and NASCAR drivers only need
to see what's ahead of them and in their mirrors. They're not all
constantly swiveling their heads, as a daily driver needs to do.
_I_ personally don't 'constantly swivel' my head. And I don't think ANY
driver "needs" to. What about a panel van? Would they just swivel
their heads to check the bodies in the back or what? the head needs to
turn no farther than the mirror. A helmet allows this just fine.
Mirrors are only good for a check. I turn my head to see peripherally
if not directly before making lane changes in town. Mirror work OK on
the freeway, but are not sufficient for town driving, backing out, or
driving into traffic. The need is there, whether or not you see it,
Steve.
--
The ultimate result of shielding men from folly
is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer
obviously you are an incompetent driver and have never driven a panel
van or
truck. Mirrors are all that should be necessary.
Being something other than a jerk isn't really your strong suit, is it?
I dunno Steve, he's not the one that can't swivel his head whilst wearing a
crash helmet. He's also right about the mirror stuff, so even if you can't
swivel your head while wearing a crash helmet, your mirrors would still work,
which is fortunate because anyone driving a large truck would never be able to
back up, change lanes, or do anything other than forge straight ahead, making
that truck delivering your brand new gov't approved saw stop late, perhaps
months late, resulting in red neck finger loss, big time.
I'm not just talking about this particular post. I don't like to jump to
conclusions, and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but after
about 74 vitriolic posts in a row from this guy, and completely independent of
whether I think he's "right" or "wrong", it's become pretty apparent to me that
the guy has ragingly dominant JERK gene.
--
Any given amount of traffic flow, no matter how
sparse, will expand to fill all available lanes.
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