pacruiser

I was driving to work on a 4 lane road, 2 lanes going one direction and the other two parallel going the other direction. I'm in the far right lane going 45 on a 45 when a minivan decides to pull out in front of me. If I had slammed on the brakes I would have hit it and the car behind me would have rear ended me. Luckily there wasn't anyone in the left lane next to me. I swirve into the left lane and as I do that the minivan proceeds to turn into that lane. Left with no options I swirve into on coming traffic. Mind you I just bought my car the 22nd. I didn't want to get into an accident. I swirve into on coming traffic. This is when the VSA kicks in. As I swirve I'm heading toward a semi in the very far left lane he honks his horn I swirve to correct to prevent from hitting the semi. Then I have to correct again to get past the van and back into the correct lane. All this happened so fast I just reacted and the VSA prevented me from oversteering and hitting the semi and hitting any one of the 75 cars that were on that road this morning. Thank you Acura for building such an awesome car. Excuse me while I clean my underwear.

sauceman

VSA pwns.

Yet another believer.

Belzebutt

Wouldn't it have been easier to swerve back into the right-most lane when you saw that the van was going through two lanes? That's where you just came from.

I know, I know, hindsight...

jlukja

By shoving it down the van drivers throat!!!!

Same thing happened to me when I had my IROC except that there was a curb median separating the oncoming traffic. When I swerved I hit the median and F*c%^d up my front suspension. Insurance took care of the problem but my rates went up. Of course the van didn't stick around to see if I was OK. :angry: :swear2:

tnl_tsx

I also almost got into car accident last nite, this black guy pull out of the parking lot and didn't look. i slammed on the break and it squeak. It was a few inches away from hitting his car. Then this morning i almost rear end this rav4 cuz my mind was somewhere else.... ALL CLOSE CALLS

clubber1083

CURSE YOU YOU DAMN SOCCER MOMS AND UR MINVANS... :sqntfawk: .....good to hear your ok and came out of it without a mark.....too bad i can't say the same for the tighty whities

clubber1083

Excuse me but i take offense to the mention of the diver being black as it has nothing to do with the correlation of his driving abilities...as a stereotyped caucasian italian american i take a big offense for that comment

pacruiser

I'm with you on that but you have to visualize it. When I see the van enter my lane it was the front end I see. By the time I switched lanes the front end was in the left lane and the rear was in the right lane diagonally. I wish there was another option cause I'm pissed that I had to go into on coming traffic.

pacruiser

clubber i'm black but I've lived long enough to know that most people don't mean anything by it. They use color or other adjectives to merely describe the situation regardless of how unimportant that adjective. And if there was some prejudiced behind the adjective I feel that you can't unlearn ignorance and choose not to waste my breath trying to change it.

clubber1083

hey pac i was just joking...shheeeez

bgillette

STOP IT....i'm a greasy italian too......and he was only pointing out that the guy was BLACK...he wasnt saying it was because he was BLACK

gezzzzzzz lighten up

iamhomin

clubber1083

ahhh gillette a fellow paisan

robert_tsxgeek

as are these gumbas

DEVO

yeah... but it's not like you mention if the guy is white.

some white guy pulled out and... etc. so using black in this case isn't really needed. I tend to use white/black if I don't know the guy's name or happens to be an adjective that gets to the point, the only white guy in the group. for example.

bgillette

thats because a white guy didnt pull out in front of him........a BLACK GUY DID!!

SIMPLE AS THAT

Yes my beloved sopranos will not air again until Jan 2006!! I dont know what i am going to do with myself.....More Paisans need to get some TSX's....then we can have the TSX MAFIA

clubber1083

There certainty is enough trunk room to uuhhh errr u know......for takin' care of dat ' ting....capeessh?

DEVO

dude, let me take your shovel away. i'll have to check some of your post and see if you actually use white guy in describing a situation. if so, my bad.

my only point is, in the above comments, the use of the word "black" in describing the situation wasn't really needed. i will go furter and say that had the guy been white, the above comment would have read something to the effect like: some guy pulled out in front of me.... notice that the word "white" was absent.

iron_chef

Real Mafias drive Cadis

:ghey: Mafia drive Acura

bgillette

no...it would have said SOME ASSHOLE .....not "some guy"



I think every ITALIAN TSX owner should get the license plate "STUGOTS" (tony's boats name...meaning testicles)

clubber1083

ughhhh i'm sorry i started this topic

bgillette

but would a real mafia guy catch me in a TSX if he is in a BIG OLD HEAVY ASS CADDY....I think not times change anyways.......christopher M. drove a land rover....

only paulie walnuts drove that caddy...

clubber1083

yea lets just hope none of the goombas smartened up and decided to get a CTS-V...othwise i'll be cooked like my mama mia's gugutz

bgillette

ahhhh very true....the CTS-V is the exception to the rule....AMAZING CAR

DEVO

me too.

iron_chef

he don't need to catch ya....just send the kiddie-soldiers driving TSX or Bimmers to collect your ass.

>>othwise i'll be cooked like my mama mia's gugutz

what's a gugutz anyway ?

clubber1083

its an italian plate

sleeper

i kid! i kid! seriously, please don't have me whacked.....

tnl_tsx

[QUOTE] "dude, let me take your shovel away. i'll have to check some of your post and see if you actually use white guy in describing a situation. if so, my bad.

my only point is, in the above comments, the use of the word "black" in describing the situation wasn't really needed. i will go furter and say that had the guy been white, the above comment would have read something to the effect like: some guy pulled out in front of me.... notice that the word "white" was absent." by DEVO

Im not a racist person, i said he's black cuz he is. i dun even know the guy and if it was a white and i'd have say "this white guy.." i was juz trying to be a lil more specific. im not judging him or wataver. i dunno wat's ur problem w/ me saying he's black. wat's ur race anywayz..

DEVO

ok my bad, i'm not saying you are racist. just pointing out that the race of the person cutting you off wasn't really relevant. also, i only commented because somebody took "offense." but turned out that they were kidding.