i have to say that at 19 people say - and feel - a lot of things they live to be ashamed of or appalled by later. i did find her blog impressively self-absorbed, but in one sense i think she's right, although probably not in the sense that she meant to be. it doesn't make much sense to put her on an anti-pedestal as some kind of isolated hate-figure, because she's not the only person out there who drives dangerously. millions do every day; they're just luckier than they deserve to be in the sense that most of them don't find themselves in her position.

it's impossible to guess who she thought she was addressing herself to with that blog entry. probably it wasn't cyclists; somehow (probably unfairly) i get the impression she doesn't know anyone who doesn't live in a car. so it's more likely to have been other drivers who don't respect cyclists or other road users any more than she did, but haven't been called to account for it.

just thinking it's a shame she can't turn the whole thing into something a bit more useful, that could at least try to shake some of the smugness in other dangerous drivers by pointing out that yea verily, it could "happen to" them. the sad thing is that having a scapegoat like her might make a some of them even more dangerous and less reflective, because many of them are sure to measure themselves against her and tell themselves their driving is fine because they haven't killed anyone.