• Triasha@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Depends on the speed you are driving.

      Texas has cows. Not as many as pop culture might suggest, but a lot.

      Texas also has lots and lots of country roads with 60miles per hour speed limits. That’s nearly 100 kph in euros.

      If it’s night and a cow is on the road you might not have time to react. The cow certainly doesn’t have time.

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      Most people have really bad night vision. They still drive like they are in daylight even on moonless nights. Even a small car has big stopping distances when travelling at speed. No one has it drilled into them enough, at a certain speed, your stopping distance is longer than the range of your headlights, and it’s not as fast as most people seem to believe.

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      3 days ago

      Over-driving your headlights at 5AM. Years ago, my roommate’s brother died by crashing his car into the side of a train that way.