The last time I was in NY I got out of my hotel in Times Square (Marriott) and went to cross the street at a corner. As I stood there a bicyclist drove into the folks standing at the corner waiting to cross knocking down a woman.
My point is that low risk incidents do happen even if they are in the one hundredth of one percent category but one shouldn't live one's life in fear of these.
Of course, don't live in fear of these. Only the paranoid do. And to answer the post you answered, Stating that many don't have good "threat assessment" skills, are not race car-driver-attuned, and are simply not watching out for the potholes is dodging the real issue, which is the combination of an extremely heavy car, worsening road surface upkeep, and the 21" wheels/ 35 low-profile performance tires, as I said in an above post. The reality is, you can't avoid hitting any potholes. Claiming it's a matter of driver skill is reverting back to the same old "blame the ignorant masses (i.e., lack of individual responsibility) for the predicament they're in."
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By the way, at the risk of sounding like a conspiracist--oh no, not one of them!--it's part of the Agenda to have the roads gradually fall into disrepair all over N. America, and everyone is experiencing this. Look back on what I said is the reason it's particularly affecting this car with the low-profile tires. Even EVs are part of the Plan. Ok, I won't continue with this and I'll fight the urge to preach about conspiracies. Don't want to impose on the rest of you like what these people are doing here with the defense of NYC subject. I'm with "thecodingart" on that one.
I'm finishing up on writing a set of two books, and some of topics are about conspiracies and the NWO. It's hard for me to stop lecturing about them. They books are also about raising consciousness, the importance of frequency, and the nature of this illusionary Matrix Game... like simulation hypothesis, but deeper.
With this wheel/tire setup, the extremely rare and lucky exception is the one who remarks, "How do you pop these tires?" Running through a sudden spilling of gravel, even at a relatively high speed, is obviously not the same as hitting the sharp edge of a pothole.
