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Old 02-04-2007, 08:58 AM
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Default Accident Avoidance

Anybody out there have any close calls yet?

Yesterday a soccer mom in a minivan almost wiped out my new TCH. It was in a residential subdivision and I had the right of way and this minivan approached a stop sign on my right going about 15-20 miles per hour and slid right through the stop sign with tires locked up on snow/ice.

I could immediately see by her speed and her locked up wheels that she was going to hit me, so I barely had time to say "oh, *$(#+", hit the brakes, swerved hard left, and somehow we managed to miss each other.

The TCH reacted and handled marvelously. Something started beeping at me after the close call like maybe the anti-lock brakes were activated. But over all I was very impressed with how the vehicle's accident avoidance systems worked.
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