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410 points jjulius | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dietsche ◴[18 Oct 24 16:27 UTC] No.41880940[source]▶
I would like more details. There are definitely situations where neither a car nor a human could respond quickly enough to a situation on the road.

for example, I recently hit a deer. The dashcam shows that I had less than 100 feet from when the deer became visible due to terrain to impact while driving at 60 mph. Keeping in mind that stopping a car in 100 feet at 60 mph is impossible. Most vehicles need more than triple that without accounting for human reaction time.

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arcanemachiner ◴[18 Oct 24 18:28 UTC] No.41882116[source]▶
This is called "overdriving your vision", and it's so common that it boggles my mind. (This opinion might have something to do with the deer I hit when I first started driving...)

Drive according to the conditions, folks.

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Kirby64 ◴[18 Oct 24 20:07 UTC] No.41882997[source]▶
On many roads if a deer jumps across the road at the wrong time there’s literally nothing you can do. You can’t always drive at 30mph on back country roads just because a deer might hop out at you.
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seadan83 ◴[19 Oct 24 02:17 UTC] No.41885144[source]▶
World of difference between, 30, 40, 50 and 60. Feels like something I have noticed between west and east coast drivers. Latter really send it on country turns and just trust the road. West coast, particularly montana, when vision is reduced, speed slows down. Just too many animals or road obstacles (eg: rocks, planks of wood) to just trust the road.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[19 Oct 24 02:27 UTC] No.41885187{3}[source]▶
> West coast, particularly montana

Montana is not "West coast".

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2. seadan83 ◴[19 Oct 24 14:32 UTC] No.41887962[source]▶
Yeah, I was a bit glib. My impression is more specifically of the greater northwest vs rest. Perhaps just "the west" vs "the east".

Indiana drivers for example really do send it (in my experience). Which is not east coast of course.

There is a good bit of nuance... I would perhaps say more simply east of Mississippi vs west, but Texas varies by region and so-Cal drivers vary a lot as well, particularly compared to nor-Cal and central+eastern california. (I don't have an impression for nevada and new mexico drivers - I dont have any experience on country roads in those states)