run100 wrote:
I believe today's amazing vehicles and safety devices give driver's (and passengers) a false sense of security. Just because a vehicle rides smooth and quiet at 80-mph, doesn't mean the vehicle and it's occupant will fare so well in a roll-over collision (not to mention, the number of other vehicles it takes with it along the way.)
Couldn't agree with you more.
In 1974, I was willingly taken for a ride in a '73 Maserati Ghibli SS. It was on a recently laid interstate at 0200 and the driver was a pro, as in Indy class. We briefly hit 155 mph. Even on what would now be considered glass-like pavement, I was white knuckled at the top of the curve because the slightest pavement seam had us airborne for a few seconds. And BTW, neither of us was in the least bit chemically impaired, except for adrenaline. :)
Around the same time and subsequently, I have/had flown inverted stunt planes and jumped out of 163 others (recreationally), but I still recall that SS "flight" as one of the most harrowing. I trusted the driver and the vehicle. I didn't trust the road.
Which brings me to my belabored point. We have traveled far and wide from Alaska to Central America in nearly 14 years of fulltiming. The infrastructure in this great nation of ours is in an unprecedented state of decay and nowhere is that more evident than in the condition of our interstate system. To travel at 80+ mph in a light vehicle on many stretches of the I's is to invite a problem, and LEO's are the least of it.
