Handbrake or not with MT

[Overdrive]

Too easy to blame phones. It's part that people feel they're more capable than they really are of multitasking between drivingn and any number of things: talking/texting/otherwise fiddling with their phone, eating, fixing hair, reading, playing with the radio and HVAC controls, putting on makeup, carrying on a conversation...and plenty beyond that. The other part is the automakers and government entities that force the automakers to add in all sorts of "safety" features and devices, which just serves to make people drive more recklessly thinking they can now defeat physics, and that they can do more things they normally wouldn't while driving because they think the car will try to save them.

How many of those invincible 4WD SUVs, for those of you who live in places that experience winter weather, do you see flipped over or otherwise involved in some sort of accident in incliment weather? And just the same, how often do you see the same vehicles, and others that tout being so much safer because of AWD, ABS, ESC, PSM, etc., mangled and thrown off the road because physics finally said "Ok, buddy, you've had enough"?

People also just don't care and don't realize that once they aren't 100% committed to driving their vehicle safely and attentively, they're now piloting a deadly weapon...poorly, at that. Don't even get me started on seeing, on a daily basis, officers of the law driving with one hand and gluing their phone to their ear with the other for hours on end.

Operating a motorcycle enlightened me to just how horrible our drivers are, and made me a defensive driver on the street no matter what I'm operating.