WTF do you drive, a yacht?
Was doing 75 MPH on a 70 MPH tollway and had to take drastic actions to avoid the massive truck swerving across into my lane. The VDC sorted out most of the issues but a touch of reverse/opposite lock doesn't hurt to make sure you don't get into too much trouble
You've never been in a situation where your car slides out a little and you use brakes, throttle and/or opposite lock to stay under control? One of the joys of a rear-wheel drive
I'm beginning to think that you haven't been in as many situations that require evasive driving techniques as you say you have.
Not sure where I mentioned I have been in many of these situations. I consider myself a relatively safe driver and avoid those situations as often as possible
Probably only a handful of occasions since I started driving at 16 would be classified as truly hair-raising
Never had a speeding ticket or a moving violation in my life (knock on wood) and only 1 proper accident where a guy with a suspended license ran a red light and hit me head on No chance to avoid that one completely unfortunately.
Thanks. What meager editing you see in it, it took a lot of effort to do. I see an immeasurable amount of room for improvement, but that's a big part of why I did it; to learn.
For the last vid I did (never posted here) I played with pixelizing the plates instead of doing an image overlay to cover them up. I think I like the overlay better (the video encodes a LOT faster, and there wasn't any crashing during the render) but I need to find a way to get it to blend in better with the video, so it doesn't appear so jumpy all the time.
What editing software do you use? A good motion tracker will make your overlay look great and save a ton of time.
I don't disagree that I seem more aggressive than average, in the sense that I don't move out of the way of a dumbass until the last possible moment, when I know for sure that if I don't, I'll get hit. One thing you can't strike me for, is not paying attention to what the hell's going on around me, unlike most of the cars I put on display.
I understand that things like not slamming on my brakes as a car crosses over a solid white line to try to force his way in front of me might seem aggressive to you, I don't agree that it is dangerous.
A couple of times you started to change lanes and then reverted, because you chose gas it and go around as the idiot did as well, when the safest option was hold back and wait and see.
it does not surprise me that you drive a truckopposite lock.
to the op, nice edit and video, although if I had a camera in my truck I could show you just the same things in and around B'ham.
I 100% agree with this.Overly passive drivers are usually the ones that cause the most accidents too, simply because they lack confidence in their abilities, and wind up over-compensating.
Overly passive drivers are usually the ones that cause the most accidents too, simply because they lack confidence in their abilities, and wind up over-compensating.
As far as driving aggressively, I think in same cases you have to. Otherwise you will end up with cars cutting in front of you left and right. It's unfortunate but true. Great vid BTW, I voted it up.