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Originally Posted by allanoue
I am confused how I have seen ALL of this and never have close calls in well over a million miles commuting in heavy LA and then Baltimore traffic daily.
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You must be in your 70's or 80's to have that many commuting miles under your belt. If you were in the 8% of drivers whose commute was 35 miles or more one-way (70 miles a day just commuting) you will have had to drive 14,285 days on average at that mileage to hit a million miles, much less "well over" that. If you worked five days a week, never missed a day for illness, vacation, etc, that's 2,857 weeks of commuting to work, day in and day out. That's 54.9 years of commuting. Assuming you started at age 15 with a hardship license and a full-time job requiring a 70 mile commute that would put you at age 69 or 70 now.
Maybe you commuted twice that distance, or 140 miles a day in LA or Baltimore traffic (snork!), that's 27.5 years of non-stop commuting. In LA the average commuting speed appears to be around 17-18 mph, so if half those miles were in LA it would take 27,777 hours to commute them. That's well over 3 years doing nothing but sitting behind the wheel.
Edit to add: I saw where you said you were 30. Assuming you started commuting when you were 16 that means you've averaged around 71,428 miles a year, or "well over" that, commuting. In LA and Baltimore. If you worked 365 days and commuted every single day, your average commute would have to had been 195 miles a day, excluding leap years, to hit a million miles. That's 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, not a missed day, for 14 years. That's amazing...
The average miles driven by a male in this country is 16,550 per year. To get a million miles at that rate would take around 60.4 years.
There are people who drive as many miles as you claim you have. They tend to be professional drivers such as long-haul truckers and couriers. Professional drivers don't, however, have a policy of tailgating because of the risks to their career and professional licensing. I highly doubt you are now, or ever have been, a professional driver.
No, your writing style and attitudes as you've indicated here on this forum make me think you're actually in your early to mid 20's. You just haven't driven enough to have real-world experience with crashes you cause by your behavior. It will catch up with you sooner or later, though, and the real shame will be that someone else will pay the price for your education on this.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...628-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...826-story.html
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm