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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
ThreadWin right there. 
Intellectually I'd agree with you except this exact thing happened to me right before we moved from SLO and I ended up doing the "risky lane toss" purely out of instinct. I was going from SLO out to the beach on one of the canyon roads at night in the Jeep, came out of a long sweeper at ~60mph, a deer popped out from behind a tree and started running across the road, I got on the braking threshold for a second, realized it wasn't going to stop fast enough, right before impact the deer darted one way and I steered it the other... it missed the LF corner by about 6" as I blew by still going ~35mph. Probably all happened in less than 3 seconds, and I didn't have time to think "you know, I should probably just keep it straight and minimize the chance of me rolling this thing over". |
If you had been Soccer Mom USA #1 on your cell phone, you'd probably be dead. People w/ actual car control experience get away with stuff like lane tosses that the general public use to contribute to the single accident SUV roll-over death rate.
That said, I don't consider my car control skill Schumacharian enough to attempt to toss the car around a moving deer and expect to get lucky and miss the thing, while avoiding all the other potential obstacles that might be about. I still contend, full ABS, steer away, don't swerve.
'Course, who knows what I'd actually do. Instinct is unpredictable. I just might yank the e-brake, pirouette around the deer, reach out the window while sliding by backwards, slap the deer on the back of the head, yell "WTF!? MATE!", and then J-turn back on my way while giving the deer the finger and "Happyness in Slavery" blaring on the stereo.