>
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:40 -0500, "Herbert Graf" <hkgraf@gmail.com>
> said:
>
>> You practice "loosing control" in controlled situations.
>>
>> Every winter, when the opportunity arises I pull into an empty  
>> parking
>> lot and "refresh" my loss of control skills (assuming there's enough
>> snow).
>>
>>> I don't want to accumulate sufficient
>>> experience with children running into the street. I think too many  
>>> of
>>> them would get hit before I learned.
>>
>> That's not what we are talking about. When you are familiar with  
>> loss of
>> control your actions to counter it become very instinctual and
>> automatic. The "steer into the skid" sort of stuff never even  
>> enters the
>> mind, you just act accordingly.
>
> I know how to drive out of control, I've had lots of track time and
> off-road time and snow/ice time, etc as well as performance driving
> training. But if a kid runs in front of me I hit the brakes. Maybe
> you're different? To me, it's panic time when it's a real person out
> there and not just a pylon or a raccoon.
>
> Cheerful regards,
>
> Bob

For some reason , I do not experience a different reaction  
( immediately ) whether the challenge is missing a rabbit , a baby or  
a pylon.  I pretty much do the same things.
Later on I may have melt-down.   When I am driving I think all the  
time about what might happen in front of me ( or to my right or left )  
and what I might do.
Gus
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