Originally Posted by Pete Fagerlin
Nice retreat.
There's a difference between reducing your risks and eliminating all risk ("Even those for which there is "no escape", there is escape if a person chooses to change the way they drive").
It's silly.
Some things are silly yes, but the bit you quoted me in parenthesis here is what I am driving at (pun meant).
If someone is, for example, rear ended in traffic, they will often say that they could do nothing about it. In most cases, they are right, because they set themselves up to get slammed. The crash is avoidable if a person chooses to a) leave room to get out of the way (it can be done - but it involves a major rethink in spacial awareness in traffic and a major rethink in how to approach a traffic light), and b) pays attention to what is behind them instead of staring off into space. Being aware of what is around you coupled with keeping more space than most are willing to keep will take a person a loooong way to avoiding virtually all crashes.
That is not silly. It is smart.