loots06

Well, sorry you lost your Mustang. I'm no nuclear engineer, but I am a cop and you are at fault. Accidents happen good thing no one got hurt.

rly_stupid

what I'm most thankful for! I might have whined about this but what you said is way more important

Roy_R

Did your airbag deploy?

rly_stupid

mine did. my forearms hit it though. no chemical burns from it.

LostBoyz

Have you written your congress person yet?

Nuke

That's not as affective as scheduling spots on Oprah, Leno, Letterman...

Norm Peterson

1 second per 10 mph at 65 mph is about 620 feet (since you claim to be an engineer, I'll let you do the math). How is that not enough room to see what's going on in the adjacent lane and adjust your speed accordingly?

BUT . . . that 1 second per 10 mph goes out the window when you suddenly merge at the higher speed into the low speed traffic, since you start out catching the slow traffic at a closing rate of at least 30 mph (your numbers suggest at least this much). Plan on adding one more second for each 10 mph of closing speed on top of the 6.5 seconds @ 65 for a total of 9.5 seconds if you're going to play that card.

Or just plan, period.



BTW, if you're on a Nimitz class CVN, a DLGN/CGN 36 or 38 class, or a 688-class boat, you're riding on/in things that I did some of the lead ship design on as well as some of the early uprates. Now that I've mentioned that, aren't you hoping that my judgment as a 20-something fresh out of engineering school was better than what you've described with respect to your part in this incident?

BTW#2, being an engineer of any sort, including Navy nuke, does not make one immune to making mistakes and errors in judgment, particularly when it comes to activities not related to the day job.


Norm

D'prived

99.9% of the time if you hit someone in the rear end it's automatically your fault.

rly_stupid

norm, I did saw was following in my original comment but right after that post I had another that said *wasn't...but thank you for your math lesson

LostBoyz

I know as an engineer that they don't really push writing skills, but come on man give it some effort.