1. Be aware of what other drivers around you are doing, and expect the unexpected. 2. Assume other motorists will do something crazy, and always be prepared to avoid it. 3. Keep a 2-second cushion between you and the car in front of you. 4. Make that 4 seconds if the weather is bad. ~Always drive with care~
Two seconds ? If I don't leave 4 or 5 seconds , I might have to touch my brakes. And I don't want THAT.
Safety? Now that I’m doing more astronomy & piloting my telescope at night thru the Universe, I find that I’m driving the cars less on the Earth during the day. That’s a safety factor.
Just try to dodge that less than one in a quadrillion chance of getting hit by space junk while you're watching it come at you.
Decades ago during a meteor shower, I set up my telescope to view the “radiant” of the Leonid meteor shower(direction from which the shower proceeds). Thought I might see a stationary blip of a meteor coming at me before it burned up in the atmosphere (or burned through my head!). But, I didn’t have motor tracking & had to keep moving the telescope, to see “nothing happening”. Got bored & just watched the meteor shower across the sky. At one point I saw 4 simultaneous meteor streaks in the same part of the sky. That was wild. At the Washington State “Star Party”, I was observing celestial objects in which only red lights are allowed, to preserve night vision, while a meteor shower was in progress. Took a break & was talking with 3 people in the dark, of which I could only see their dark silhouettes. Then a bright white light occurred behind me. I first thought someone had turned vehicle headlights on. I was miffed, & didn’t turn around, so I could preserve my night vision. But, it was a meteor burning through the sky. Suddenly, it hit the lower atmosphere & it was like a huge flash bulb illuminating like daylight, the whole region for 15 miles all around. Startled, the 3 people’s dark silhouettes turned pure white in front of me. I turned toward the meteor flash, but all I could see as I rotated were the 3 pure white silhouette after images against the night sky, left on my retinas. My eyes recovered a bit & I saw the last remnants of the meteor burning out. That got proclamations of “wows” from the entire Astro Field. At the Oregon State Star Party one year, I had my 20x80mm binoculars set up on a tripod. Fortunately, a meteor burned across the sky & I quickly could see it in the binoculars, till it died out. That meteor got lots of ohh’s & ahh’s. But, beyond that I could see the smoke left behind by the meteor as it cooled in the air with the binoculars. I hollered in the dark that I could see the smoke of the meteor! People shouted in the dark, “No you can’t”. I shouted back, “Yes, I can”. People then started coming out of the dark to look through my binoculars. Then, they said, “Yes, I can, too”. After a few minutes of excitement, people drifted away, back to their own activities on the Astro field. Ten minutes passed, since the meteor burn & I could still see the meteor smoke. I shouted again, “I can still see the meteor smoke”. People shouted back, “No, you can’t”. I shouted back, “Yes, I can”. Then, people trickled out of the dark to view in my binoculars, “Yes, I see it, too”. Then, they drifted away again. 20 minutes after the meteor burn, I could still see the meteor smoke. I shouted again, “I can see the meteor smoke”. But, this time, no one came out of the dark to binocular view. How short is fame!