Yes, you're welcome to use it for educational purposes. My wife and I were driving a Mazda CX-90 with our 21' trailer camping along the north shore of Lake Superior en route to visit my cousin outside Dryden. As per the video, I was driving at 95 km/hr (slightly above the 90 km/hr posted limit) with the cruise control on. As we were rounding a bend in the highway (with a double yellow line) I suddenly noticed a car passing transport truck rapidly approaching on my side of the highway. I instantaneously (reflex I suspect) started to apply the breaks and swerve onto the paved shoulder to avoid a head on collision which would have been inevitable if I'd remained in my lane. As you can see in the video I slowed to about 70 km/hr after passing the other vehicle. The whole thing only took about 3 seconds from my perspective and definitely speaks to the importance of remaining focussed on the task at hand...driving. Had I been distracted doing something unrelated to what was in front of me, there is a very high likelihood that a fatal collision would have been the final outcome given the 1 - 2 seconds I had to respond. We have a 21' Alto Safari Condo trailer (A2124) with a very good weight distribution hitch and trailer breaks which handled perfectly during this emergency maneuver.
If you're interested, here's a link to a photo of our rig that I took at one of the campsites on the north shore of Lake Superior.. pbase.com/duncanbristow/image/174834290
Great song choice and performance. The Marshall Tucker Band was just one of many amazing bands on Capricorn Records in the '70s. I remember standing just spitting distance from the stage when they performed this classic at Portland, Oregon's Multnomah County Fair in the mid-80s.
@@brianarbenz1329 dual gag, the Cone of Silence was a running gag on a device that never, ever worked and failed in comical ways that rendered communications impossible. Just as pointing at a pothole on the moon got the message across "New Jersey", which at the time, pothole central was also South Philly's waterfront and well, Philly in general. How could you tell the two apart back then? Philly doesn't have circles. The gag wasn't the budget for Control, it was that Control was far ahead of the government in technology, a standing joke on the CIA. Itself laughable, as agency technologies were pretty much leading edge to solid middle of the pack, but they did have specialized devices that literally have their very own museum that's, well, not open to the public. But then, layered jokes and layered in-jokes were common in that series in particular. BTW, Don Adams was a reformed Marine (yeah, in joke between Army and Marines), served in the Battle of Guadalcanal, ducking successfully at the right times, but getting knocked down by a nasty flavor of malaria, then became a USMC Drill Instructor. The nasty variety of malaria being 90% fatal at the time and not a hell of a lot better today.
