Had a guy cut me off today while driving home. Not bad like sometimes happens. In fact, I knew for about a half mile what he was going to do. The problem is it was very obvious that this guy did not know what he was going to do.

He wasn’t the driver of the other car. He was merely sitting in a driver’s seat.

Being in the driver’s seat of a car is the worst place to be while driving. Well, at least to have your mind be there. Your mind needs to be in about three different places. 50 foot ahead, 500 foot ahead, and 5000 foot ahead.

Defensive driving classes teach you that you don’t focus on the car in front of you. You need to be at least a car in front of that person. 50 foot…

In normal traffic 500 foot is also important because you need to be in the correct lane for what you’re going to do next. 500 foot is the turn signal comes on spot, which is before you do what it is you’re going to do. If you’re going to make a turn, 500 foot prior you put on your turn signal. THEN you slow down. If you put on your turn signal after you’ve already made your move, you’ve failed.

5000 foot is almost a mile. This is where you need to be making sure you know where you’re going. Your exit is coming up soon. You need to change lanes. Is that construction coming up. Why is that other lane suddenly slowing down up there.

Anyway, this guy that cut me off was letting the car take him somewhere, rather than being a driver and making the car do what he wants. He waited until the very last second to suddenly change lanes when his lane turned right. And I’m sure he’s been on that residential road a thousand times going home from work. But because he wasn’t aware, wasn’t being an active driver, he suddenly woke up when his lane ended and swung over in my lane without looking. But I knew he would do that and had already slowed down to leave a gap.

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