Can you describe a situation in which you only had a split second to react?

It’ll be interesting to see how long the post is, vs the time you had to actually make the decision.

One of my examples would be that I came up on an intersection. I had the right of way. The cross street had a stop sign. However, there was a semi in such a position that the person at the stop sign on the other side couldn’t see the on-coming traffic. I guess they figured if they couldn’t see it, it wasn’t there! So I’m driving past the semi when suddenly, there is another car filling my windshield. The person in the other car didn’t even begin to cross cautiously. They weren’t creeping past the semi….they were suddenly there going through the intersection. At that point I was AT the intersection. In a split second I noticed my position, hit the brakes, and swerved a hard right to take me into the entry of the cross intersection. (It there had been a curb there, it, or me, would have been taken out!) Everything came to a stand still with the nose of my car pointing right at the right side of the other car, about a foot away, and actually partially IN the road that crosses the intersection, but at a slant, because I’d thrown the car to the right. If I hadn’t thrown it, I would have hit them. I threw it because, in that split second, I processed the information that there was that space on the cross street that they were attempting to cross into, and acted accordingly.

Now, it just took a LONG time to ‘splain all of the things that went through my head in that split second, that caused me to make the decision I did. Your turn!

Of course, the person in the other car looked at me like, “What is YOUR problem!” Why do idiots do that???