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[Renze]

There's no saying this has anything to do with what happened, it's just an interesting thought exercise. What comes to mind is me reminding my wife each time she drives the pickup truck, "don't flip the damn thing trying to avoid a deer, just slow down as much as you can before running it over."

Few years ago a person from around here, got killed in traffic by hitting a culvert in a ditch hard.
Police suspected the driver (young female) panicked when avoiding roadkill (a fox) and lost control.

Same as sudden traffic stops when an idiot stops without warning with its turn signals: I slam the brakes by muscle memory, then watch my mirror and decide if i can evade, or if theres a car behind me that needs my space as stopping space, or if theres a truck behind me that doesnt slow down and i should save myself... Is there room to get aside to the roadside? I immediately begin scanning the situation to calculate a next move, if necessary.

Once i was not very fit due to an ear infection and lost speed perception somewhat. I realised too late the traffic was at standstill, saw a mom violently gesturing at her 4 year old standing on the rear seat to sit down, realised i would make that child unhappy on this trajectory and yanked my steering wheel to the right, into the guardrail of the exit lane. The scratch i made on someone elses car with my left hand mirror buffed out, and on the right side i needed one front panel and two doors from the wreckyard.

Needless to say, after exchanging contact data with the lady whose fender i touched lightly, i went home straight to bed.

Its a matter of how male brains are wired vs men: Evolutionary, men are wired to face danger and women to avoid that. I guess thats the reason why women panic, and i just get calm and quickly evaluate my options... Its amazing how calm you can be in a car crash. Just tend to make other people angry when i make a dark joke about it when i get out

I once shut two halls of the steel construction company down by triggering the industrial grade residual current breaker by poking my finger in a fuse hole while replacing the fuse on a ladder, so i couldnt see the hole properly.
When the chief came out to see why the shop was shut down and i told him laughing that 63A 400V tickled, he yelled "why are you laughing, you could have been dead !" I replied, still laughing "yet here i am, glad that i -can- laugh ! With a sore arm..." he decided to cool down in his office for 5 minutes

 

[WinterDeere]

yes 100% but as you probably know sometime it's a reflex, you know what you should do but yet the lizard brain take over...

Oh yes, totally agreed, and that's what I meant when I said "I wish we tested for this".

I have almost no involuntary reflex, no real "jump scare" response. I somehow remain calm and calculating in the face of almost certain disaster. I'm more apt to get the "slow motion" response than anything else, where it feels like I have plenty of time to recover from a vehicle's loss of control on ice, etc. My wife is the opposite extreme, throws her hands in the air, screams, and falls on the floor like a sack of rice at any surprise, even if a mouse happens to run through the room.

Most people are somewhere in-between, but I do think there's a good argument to be made for keeping my wife's type away from the class-A licenses.

 

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Oh yes, totally agreed, and that's what I meant when I said "I wish we tested for this".

I have almost no involuntary reflex, no real "jump scare" response. I somehow remain calm and calculating in the face of almost certain disaster. I'm more apt to get the "slow motion" response than anything else, where it feels like I have plenty of time to recover from a vehicle's loss of control on ice, etc. My wife is the opposite extreme, throws her hands in the air, screams, and falls on the floor like a sack of rice at any surprise, even if a mouse happens to run through the room.

Most people are somewhere in-between, but I do think there's a good argument to be made for keeping my wife's type away from the class-A licenses.

I've trained myself out of a reflex I had where something tapping me on the head unexpectedly caused me to just drop, but I've also got the time-slows-down thing. I recall one time in my misbegotten youth, speeding much too fast in my sports car, I found a damp spot under a shaded hairpin turn and the car spun out. Time slowed wayyyyy down, I recovered from the spin, got the car straight again, and *then* almost had a heart attack.

 

[Renze]

I'm more apt to get the "slow motion" response than anything else, where it feels like I have plenty of time to recover from a vehicle's loss of control on ice, etc.

Yes, they tend to show such moments in slow motion in movies, yet not everyone experiences it like this. I had a friend who said she was with her mother, slid on ice, mom screamed and put her hands in front of her eyes instead of on the steering wheel

Apparently when fight or flight mode kicks in, in women mostly the flight mode kicks in and in men the fight mode. Though i have no idea what evolutionary advantage there is to the primal routine of covering your eyes and screaming... other than to alert the men to handle the problem..? Oh well, another thing feminists dont want to hear..

But indeed its remarkable how adrenaline kicks your brain into overdrive, making it seem you have plenty of time to think of the least worse option while the time between thinking "oh F this means trouble" and standing still is only 2 to 3 seconds.

To be honest, when i feed the chicken and a big rat rushes between my legs i scream too. Not that i am really scared, but more the combination of surprise and disgust for those infection ridden critters.

 

[LHF2019]

Few years ago a person from around here, got killed in traffic by hitting a culvert in a ditch hard.
Police suspected the driver (young female) panicked when avoiding roadkill (a fox) and lost control.

Same as sudden traffic stops when an idiot stops without warning with its turn signals: I slam the brakes by muscle memory, then watch my mirror and decide if i can evade, or if theres a car behind me that needs my space as stopping space, or if theres a truck behind me that doesnt slow down and i should save myself... Is there room to get aside to the roadside? I immediately begin scanning the situation to calculate a next move, if necessary.

Once i was not very fit due to an ear infection and lost speed perception somewhat. I realised too late the traffic was at standstill, saw a mom violently gesturing at her 4 year old standing on the rear seat to sit down, realised i would make that child unhappy on this trajectory and yanked my steering wheel to the right, into the guardrail of the exit lane. The scratch i made on someone elses car with my left hand mirror buffed out, and on the right side i needed one front panel and two doors from the wreckyard.

Needless to say, after exchanging contact data with the lady whose fender i touched lightly, i went home straight to bed.

Its a matter of how male brains are wired vs men: Evolutionary, men are wired to face danger and women to avoid that. I guess thats the reason why women panic, and i just get calm and quickly evaluate my options... Its amazing how calm you can be in a car crash. Just tend to make other people angry when i make a dark joke about it when i get out

I once shut two halls of the steel construction company down by triggering the industrial grade residual current breaker by poking my finger in a fuse hole while replacing the fuse on a ladder, so i couldnt see the hole properly.
When the chief came out to see why the shop was shut down and i told him laughing that 63A 400V tickled, he yelled "why are you laughing, you could have been dead !" I replied, still laughing "yet here i am, glad that i -can- laugh ! With a sore arm..." he decided to cool down in his office for 5 minutes

That's interesting. Couple incidents I've had everything slowed down to slow motion. It was interesting. When I hit a deer with the motorcycle there were 3 of them nose to tail running. No avoiding them. Told myself let's see what happens and maintained the course.

My cousin on the other hand panics. We were kids boiling sap and took the storage tank to far. He was all panic we were going to melt the tanks. I just started the process to kill the fire as quick as possible.

If ever in a building on fire I'll be the one waiting for everybody to trample themselves so I can walk out. Yes people don't like those dark jokes.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Oh yes, totally agreed, and that's what I meant when I said "I wish we tested for this".

I have almost no involuntary reflex, no real "jump scare" response. I somehow remain calm and calculating in the face of almost certain disaster. I'm more apt to get the "slow motion" response than anything else, where it feels like I have plenty of time to recover from a vehicle's loss of control on ice, etc. My wife is the opposite extreme, throws her hands in the air, screams, and falls on the floor like a sack of rice at any surprise, even if a mouse happens to run through the room.

Most people are somewhere in-between, but I do think there's a good argument to be made for keeping my wife's type away from the class-A licenses.

I also tend to stay collected, but I have also done quick swerving around a tire on the road at night without thinking about it or knowing what it was until I was next to it or pass it...testing it and practice it would be great for everyone.

My uncle once was traveling at night (before the sunrise) with his old pickup truck to his hunting spot and he actually told himself ''if I see a moose I am going to smoke it'' guess what he saw one and slammed the break, lol.

 

[Renze]

If ever in a building on fire I'll be the one waiting for everybody to trample themselves so I can walk out. Yes people don't like those dark jokes.

Never been in a building on fire. Well... the PIR isolation under the roof burned around the chimney. I accelerated quickly, said a curse and a prayer within 3 seconds (came from the house after taking a long and relaxed dump, walked back and saw small flames around the chimney) i said DANG fire ! Ran towards the garden hose which was frozen. Then said God, please let the extinguisher work (if i had to run back to the house to find another one i would probably be too late as PIR fires accelerate fast.

I extinguished the fire of the roof and in the stove, then climbed on the roof and emptied the rest of the extinguisher between the fiber cement roof sheets and the isolation.

Then i grabbed a beer and sat there waiting if the fire flared up or not...

 

[John0829]

Apparently when fight or flight mode kicks in, in women mostly the flight mode kicks in and in men the fight mode. Though i have no idea what evolutionary advantage there is to the primal routine of covering your eyes and screaming... other than to alert the men to handle the problem..?

I don't know if it is to alert or not but that screaming pi$$es me off BIG time. Mine screams at every little thing that makes a quick movement, it's more unnerving than anything that might be going on. I have threatened to put a blindfold on her many times.

Just be quite, let me observe and figure the best way out... if need be.

 

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Opsss.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't know if it is to alert or not but that screaming pi$$es me off BIG time. Mine screams at every little thing that makes a quick movement, it's more unnerving than anything that might be going on. I have threatened to put a blindfold on her many times.

Just be quite, let me observe and figure the best way out... if need be.

We live in heavy deer country. Although I’ve never had a real serious collision with one, my wife has had a few. She even hit one at 70 mph once, damn near liquifying the thing.

Yet every time she is a passenger in my car, she screams “watch out” every time she sees any deer anywhere off the road. Not knowing why she’s yelling, I used to actually slam on the brakes, but have since learned to ignore the unnecessary “warnings”.

Hopefully it never turns into a “boy who cried wolf” scenario, where one of her warnings is legit, and I actually hit something.