Posted on 08/21/2020 5:05:46 AM PDT by tlozo
That was Grandpa... Lol
“Why would your child be on a highway?”
https://youtu.be/0jtXAP06qzA
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“Text messaging increases the risk of crash or near-crash by 23 times.” Virginia Technical Transportation Institute, USDOT
They had pulled their world record cannonball Mercedes off the road (in a previous run) and with cameras rolling, a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and destroyed it.
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I hates when that happens.
I’ve seen a lot of videos of cars pulled over to the side of the road getting creamed by an inattentive driver. In fact, I just remembered that my uncle was changing a flat on a surface street and was hit by a car. It almost killed him. This was in 1961.
The shoulder of a freeway is a very dangerous place. There is no special protection. Stopping next to a lane where people are buzzing by at 70 mph is a recipe for disaster.
So, if they left NYC at 6 p.m. and took 25 hours, 39 minutes to arrive that means they hit L.A. around 7 p.m. and probably got stuck in that traffic. The last hour was probably stop-and-go.
Rather than NYC to L.A., a trip from, say, Portland, ME. to San Diego would be more interesting. Or Miami to Soyattle. A race from Vancouver to P.E.I. would also be challenging. Gotta make this more interesting; add more strategy.
The so called Cannonball Run started nearly 50 years ago, with hundreds of thousands of collective miles run at very high speed. Has there ever been a fatality?
Driving 112 mph in pitch black of night, sounds extremely dangerous to them and to any farmer who’s trying to run errands 5 o’clock in the morning.
If your idea of speeding is going 56 MPH, I can understand your concern. But if you are driving “errands” at 5 AM, you are either coming home from an overnight, or the bars just closed.
Oh, OK.
You must be a ball at parties.
Make sure you keep your mask tight.
I was driving in West Texas one day on my big motorcycle.
I was trying to “keep up” with the traffic. I looked down and I was going 95. I stopped trying to keep up and dropped down to the low 80s.
“They hit L.A. around 7 p.m.”... nope. With the time zones factored in, they hit LA about 4pm. Odd.
People wearing masks are obviously giving and getting covid anyway. The cases surged alone with mask mandates, probably because of absolutely horrible mask hygiene.
Nothing better to kill the man in a boy than a soy dad!
Every time I go to Costco I use the same mask I was given at Costco in April at a Seattle location. I cut nine slits in it that expand to a quarter inch. I can breathe just fine and nobody says anything. It’s really getting ratty, though. And I have to keep stapling on the elastic bands when they come off.
But I only go there once a month or so.
Life has risks, people need to buck up, oh, and open the schools.
There’s risk to driving in general. That said night driving is better in some ways, you can see lights and reflectors a long way off. I’ve done it, averaging 95mph on two lane roads. Sure an animal can run in from the side, but that can happen anytime.
Look up Dakar, they drive a lot of that at night, and at high speeds.
Keeping your hands clean is the key, so the mask doesn’t germ up from touching it.
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