Originally Posted by
November Seven
FWIW, someone just tried to kill me today on the road. Just made a lane change directly out in front of me with less than 2 feet to spare and kept coming - never bothered looking. If I did not have ample room on the left shoulder to use as a buffer to that move, there would have been a collision because there was no room or time for me to brake hard enough to avoid.
Even if that situation did result in a crash, that does not mean you would have died, so you can't use that to prove your point that a nonprofessional flying alone in a VLJ is safer than driving.