Driving Philosophies Ch 67, Pgh 728.37

Chapter 67, Paragraph 728.37: On turn lanes and highway exits: Brakes are ideally not to be applied before entrance into turn lane or onto exit ramp is complete. Braking on the Interstate is dangerous and should never take place outside of necessity. Likewise, Left turn lanes at traffic lights are beside the rest of the road for good reason and if possible, braking should not occur until auto in question is wholly within the confines of that turn lane. This is of course merely the ideal, as application of this adherence is not always possible, but diligence in attempting the application of this principal is good enough to be deemed good driving. People who tailgate not only lack respect for the road and its temporary inhabitants, but they also lack any sense of clue whatever about the truly glorious nature of driving. Speed is not the goal, speed in fact is very often the antithesis of driving beauty. The goal is water, and sudden application of braking devices governing the intertia of the mobile is sandpaper on the smooth ass cheeks of automotion. Such application is naturally very often necessary, however heavy braking is more often that not due to a total lack of foresight, the greatest scourge on our blacktop planet. Likewise, braking at all when exiting a highway is entirely unecessary on most exit ramps. What will better serve both the driver's soul and the car's demeanor, not to mention the road's very spirit, is to release accleration at a point near the exit where one needs to slow down but where water and rhythm are still very much present. Braking on the highway slows down everybody behind you, and worse yet it botches the overall karmic totality of a silken commute. So many times I have driven within my philosophies and seen cars pass me left and right only to find themselves in need of sudden action. Finding oneself in such need is usually the result of poor or nonexixtent foresight. As I drive towards the fluid, I invariably pass these people as they jump and jerk forth and sides, tearing their personal fabric of the glory that might have been. I suppose there would be no river if there were no rocks, however. For those of us who know better, it is important not to be upset by these fools, but rather to view them as both pathetically juvenile and obscenely unaware of their own inability to know any better. This helps to calm the heart of the virtuous and pure of heart drivers. Timidity, on the whole other side of the spectrum, is equally as destructive to this holy textile. The goal is water, like I said and will say again, and it can be more closely made apparent by first, not braking as you exit the interstate unless absolutely necessary and not braking until the whole of the auto is within the left turn lane if possible. Your invisible devotion will be rewarded is ways invisible, until that devotion is practiced you will not see.
Friday, June 28, 2002
09:52 a.m.
by: adam douglas payne