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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: Yankee behind the wheel.. {HELP!}
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.230129.19209@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec20.090341.27515@netcom.com> <1992Dec21.143643.14357@pixel.kodak.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:01:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.143643.14357@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
- >Well, based on experience adapting the other way:
- >
- >You are most likely to get into trouble when reacting to a sudden,
- >unexpected event. It can be as simple as finding yourself heading
- >in the wrong direction, or missing a turning. While you're concentrating
- >on sorting this out, your instincts take over and you wind up on the wrong
- >side of the road.
- >
- >
- >Therefore: Drive Defensively. If the unexpected happens, stop and THINK!
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- --assuming that you have time to stop and think.
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- Another feature of switching: you don't know which way to look at corners,
- no matter whether you are on your "usual" side of the road or
- not. Then there was the time a few months ago that my other
- half rented a jeep to do some sightseeing while on business in NM.
- We had just recently returned from the UK. He was having a great
- time driving on dirt roads, which have no "side", then made his way
- back to the main road...and was happily driving on the wrong side of
- the thoroughfare for some time until another truck appeared.
- Oops.
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