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>>>*Pretty good soap box, too! I agree completely, threre should be training, more training, and then about the time someone is so highly trained that we can be sure they will do the right thing, train them some more. Especially police, firefighters, anyone that can expect to find themselves in an upset condition.

I remember one old coot (even older old coot than me!) out at the racetrack, we were chatting as we watched our kids get ready to head out onto the short track and wreck stuff.

He told me that he thought that everyone should have to climb into one of those old cars and make some laps at a miminum speed before they ever got a license to be on the highway. While being booted around by someone following them with experience.

I asked him why, telling him that would be kinda expensive.

He said he figured with the reduction in the number of deaths and accidents, it might just be cheaper, since 99.9% of the drivers on the highway can't drive...at all.

*Like the guy yesterday on I-5 that passed us on the way home. I saw his left turn signal come on behind me, he pulled over to the left and sailed by and on down the road, cell phone in hand. He was in one of those Toyota Raves, I think they are called?

I was doing 75 at the time.......in the left hand lane... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />...*EB