How to own a 993 for decades W/O an Accident
06-19-2019, 09:06 AM
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How to own a 993 for decades W/O an Accident
Many of the driving habits I use in my 993 I developed riding a motorcycle as they seem to apply to my 993.
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
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HelpMeHelpU (06-23-2019)
06-19-2019, 09:33 AM
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Great tips from a fellow biker.
Biking teaches you be much more aware as you are so vulnerable.
On the freeway from Detroit international to Ann Arbor I was once followed by a woman on her phone, adjusting her hair and steering with her knees at aound 70 mph
Look at preceeding drives manouvers, road positioning, unneccesary braking, lane changes without indication, get them in your rear view asap.
Biking teaches you be much more aware as you are so vulnerable.
On the freeway from Detroit international to Ann Arbor I was once followed by a woman on her phone, adjusting her hair and steering with her knees at aound 70 mph
Look at preceeding drives manouvers, road positioning, unneccesary braking, lane changes without indication, get them in your rear view asap.
06-19-2019, 10:14 AM
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Many of the driving habits I use in my 993 I developed riding a motorcycle as they seem to apply to my 993.
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
06-19-2019, 11:29 AM
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06-19-2019, 11:58 AM
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Well articulated, important,. Thanks Andy. This thread might rival tires and oil!...
Problem is that given the truths you and others relate, which are essential to both occupants and our cars being safe and accident free, that having to be on such vigilant guard nearly every second, and we need to, that such reality often impedes some of the pleasure and rewards in driving. our great cars.
It' often nigh impossible to maintain safe distances between ourselves and other vehicles, in front or behind. If there is such space, which we deliberately create and maintain, some fool will fill it, and usually w/o signaling, and often doing so too closely in their knee-jerk maneuver. Looking in a rear mirror and seeing someone quickly pulling in behind, not more than a foot or two from my bumper, at speed, is frequent.. Any false or other sudden move, and it's bing bang.
We are poorly seen in parking lots, especially as crew cabs and bigger higher SUV's rule America.. Their length and breadth impede our visibility, and demand ever more driving skills and vigilance.
Problem is that given the truths you and others relate, which are essential to both occupants and our cars being safe and accident free, that having to be on such vigilant guard nearly every second, and we need to, that such reality often impedes some of the pleasure and rewards in driving. our great cars.
It' often nigh impossible to maintain safe distances between ourselves and other vehicles, in front or behind. If there is such space, which we deliberately create and maintain, some fool will fill it, and usually w/o signaling, and often doing so too closely in their knee-jerk maneuver. Looking in a rear mirror and seeing someone quickly pulling in behind, not more than a foot or two from my bumper, at speed, is frequent.. Any false or other sudden move, and it's bing bang.
We are poorly seen in parking lots, especially as crew cabs and bigger higher SUV's rule America.. Their length and breadth impede our visibility, and demand ever more driving skills and vigilance.
06-19-2019, 12:21 PM
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DRL can’t hurt. My mod (link in my sig) lets 993 fog lights work independent of headlights- if you leave your fog light switch pulled out, your fogs will come automatically when you start the car.
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06-19-2019, 12:25 PM
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Many of the driving habits I use in my 993 I developed riding a motorcycle as they seem to apply to my 993.
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
I like to think that the above points would help make us all idiot-proof - the only problem is that they keep making smarter idiots!
06-19-2019, 12:54 PM
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I keep my LED 'turbo fog lights' on all the time. Rears light as well, and I've added additional Tore LED's to the unused rear fog assemblies in our rear center plastic piece.
Technically illegal, never been stopped. I also have a copy of a comprehensive study in Australia a few years ago showing dark cars are substantially more likely to be involved in accidents, especially at night. Will show in traffic court, if necessary!
Absent side marker/directionals on our U.S. spec cars, aiding in being been in lane changing, is a dumb omission by the Feds here decades ago.Not all agree.
Technically illegal, never been stopped. I also have a copy of a comprehensive study in Australia a few years ago showing dark cars are substantially more likely to be involved in accidents, especially at night. Will show in traffic court, if necessary!
Absent side marker/directionals on our U.S. spec cars, aiding in being been in lane changing, is a dumb omission by the Feds here decades ago.Not all agree.
06-19-2019, 01:18 PM
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Very well stated - excellent information and I always appreciate such reminders to be vigilant.
It is my assumption other drivers are not only completely unaware of my presence on the road, but they wouldn't alter their actions in any way f they were.
It is my assumption other drivers are not only completely unaware of my presence on the road, but they wouldn't alter their actions in any way f they were.
06-19-2019, 02:55 PM
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Many of the driving habits I use in my 993 I developed riding a motorcycle as they seem to apply to my 993.
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
1) Assume you can’t be seen; A 993 has a low roofline falling below the window sills of many vehicles, this makes a 993 all but invisible to many other drivers;
2) Assume the drivers around you are oblivious or incompetent, or both; Situational awareness and obeying traffic control devices seem optional these days for many drivers;
3) Use your brain continually to update the scene unfolding before you, and plan escape routes anticipating common driving errors by others; Situational awareness is king!
4) Relinquish your right-of-way at a second’s notice; There is little value in asserting your rights on public roads when others are unaware of the rules of driving or don't respect them;
5) Provide for leaving space IN ALL DIRECTIONS;
6) Constantly change your positional relationship to the cars that surround you in traffic so they continue to see you;
7) Practice emergency maneuvers with your vehicle in an empty parking lot: know your cars handling characteristics;
I encourage others to add to my list in reply below
Andy
06-19-2019, 03:13 PM
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I've owned my 993 for nearly 14 years. During that time, a Rennlist member opened their door into my driver's side rear wheel arch (leaving a dent), and another Rennlist member smacked into the rear of my 993 (damaging my bumper).
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HelpMeHelpU (06-23-2019)
06-19-2019, 03:36 PM
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