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> The point being that there is a extremely simple explanation for this accident

Can you share that extremely simple explanation, if you know it?



I just did. The tweeter is a two-pedal driver who leaned on the accelerator by accident, didn't realize it, and stomped on the brakes to stop the car. Then fibbed about it a little on Twitter for clicks. Why do you believe this one twitter user over me? Because one confirms your priors and the other doesn't.


> The tweeter is a two-pedal driver who leaned on the accelerator by accident, didn't realize it,

That could be.

> and stomped on the brakes to stop the car

So, why didn't the car stop? Why did it keep driving forward with only one axle locked up by the brakes?

> Why do you believe this one twitter user over me?

Well because he was there and you were not.


> Why did it keep driving forward with only one axle locked up by the brakes?

Again, you're citing facts not really in evidence. If you want to believe a two-tweet conspiracy without confirmation, I can't stop you. I'm saying that it's probably not the truth and that a routine loss of control is a better explanation.


> routine loss of control is a better explanation

Loss of control is not routine. It is something that should never ever happen.


Did you miss the study I posted upthread which clearly says it's routine? "Should not" and "does" are not mutually exclusive.




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