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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Anyone that shares the road with a 18 wheel tractor-trailer!
I have twice had a 18 wheeler give me a choice, change my position and yield or be dead right and stay where I was. I chose to live. Once was in St Louis in the maze of interchanges, a simi decided at the last second he was in the wrong lane and just swerved into my lane. I had to squeeze into a small spot in the wrong lane and ended up going into the wrong state. I had to go across the bridge before I could turn around.
Offensive driving will get you killed with the giant vehicles on the road and idiot drivers with their faces glues to a text message.
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You absolutely miss the point. Of course all situations cannot be anticipated. But sitting there just waiting or being indecisive or tentative, which is defensive driving, IMO, will get you killed far more often than being on your toes.
If you consider the entirety of my definition, defensive is a reactionary term, "offensive" in the context I stated is anticipatory, being ahead of the game.
In your two cases could you have seen the trucks doing that? And why not? My use of the term Offensive driving means you would have considered those *******s doing something stupid
Hunkering down is not the solution, you anticipate on the track at high speed, you should do the same on the highway.