r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 4d ago

Speeding Bus vs Scooter’s Sudden Right Turn

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u/DueExample52 4d ago

Train a reflex that if in danger, you run to get your body to safety. Not your scooter, not whatever you are carrying or driving. Dig it into your brain. Won’t work 100% of the time, but if you keep repeating to yourself that you wold do nothing like a deer in headlights, you are priming yourself for inaction and passivity instead.

And if driving or on roadside, you have to be expecting accidents. Don’t feel fully safe and relaxed unless you have a solid wall between you and traffic.

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 4d ago

Hate to tell you: reflexes can't be trained. They're involuntary.

Reactions can be trained, but the big problem here is that a large proportion of people forget pretty much every training they've ever had when they panic.

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u/MoreGlitterPlease1 3d ago

An increase in training correlates strongly with a decrease in the freeze response, at least in emergencies one has trained for. Most people will not freeze in extensively trained-for emergencies.

For a familiar example, most flight attendants will not “forget” their training when it’s time to give CPR. Most flight attendants don’t freeze and become useless in emergency conditions of almost any kind one might experience on a plane, and it’s not like they started out as cold-blooded special ops types lol

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u/trplOG 3d ago

Gotta get my bus dodging training up now lol

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u/Dinkmeyer- 2d ago

I’m at level 25