'I think I need a psychiatrist' contest (fwd)

[Phil Payne <quk@sievers.com>]

In message <Pine.A32.3.91.970305085510.162856A-100000@elk.uvm.edu> "Louis A. Mulieri" writes:

> 	This activates a question I've frequently pondered.  What to do 
> when you know you're about to be rear-ended.

At all costs take the transmission out of the equation - neutral and clutch 
depressed.

Then, in the UK, legal considerations outweigh practical ones.  Do everything 
possible to avoid rear-ending the guy in front.  In the UK, spin the steering 
wheel to the left so that your impact on the guy in front is _obviously_ caused 
by the impact you had from behind.
  
Otherwise, the guy behind can claim that you stopped unreasonably quickly by 
running into the stationary vehicle in front of you.
 
(BTDT!) 

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club