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Wear your seatbelt (infosec.pub)

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[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds wonderful. With the amount of total morons on the road today, this needs to be implemented in every US state.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.

This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn't lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control... she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so...

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oof. I feel for her. That fight/flight/freeze response can be really hard to override, especially given her background.

I taught myself how to drive in the snow pretty soon after I got my license, in a 1991 FJ80 Land Cruiser with zero electronic aids. I figured out how to drift that pig through the whole church parking lot 😂, but being able to do that on my own was hugely beneficial to where I can now make my FWD cars perform better in the snow than most drivers here with 4WD. I just turn off traction control if it's too hairy... Sometimes you need that wheelspin.