Never let you gas get under 1/4 tank at the very worst. You need to be able to keep moving until you can get to a police station or some other rather safe area.
Keep you windows up at all times, this makes it harder for anyone to physicaly grab you. I will also defect objects throw in or fluids from hitting you. It even provides a bit of protection from weapons fire.
Try and make sure you can see the tires of the car in front of you touch the ground, if you can see them touch the ground you normally have enough room to turn around them. At a total stop, it you get to close, it is easy for a single car to block you in from the rear.
When at all possible be on and inside or outside lane where you can once again turn out of traffic to escape. Center lanes do not allow you the room to manover.
When you have to jump a curb, hit it at as direct an angle as you can. Your car can go over even larg curbs if you go at it at less than a 20% angle, and 45% is better. Even at speed you car will climb it fairly well. The tires with very little sidwalls look good, but can not handle curbs very well, they tend to hit the rims and break them to eaisily.
High speed chases look good on TV and movies, for real driving slower speed chases are more effective and up your chances of survival. Try and never go faster than you can easily control turns with your vehicle. At very high speeds, even a small bump can put you out of control. At a slower speed you can take a withstain fairly hard bumps with out losing control.
Your chances of out running a bad guy are fairly slim, your chances at a slower speed out manovering the bad guy are much higher.
Remember if the bad guy has a plan, it usually involves a fairly short area of control. Most ambushes are with in 50 feet, you key is to get out of that area. With a blown tire you can make it over a 1/4 mile, at a speed of over 30 miles an hour. Keep going till you are out of the danger zone, and then a little further. In the first 90 feet the wheel is probably gone anyhow, so the damage is done.
Never stop if you possible can, at over 20 miles an hour, it is hard to hit a car from a stationary position. If the following car is shooting at you it is the change in speed that throws off the shot, not the speed itself. If you are both going 90 miles an hour, the aiming speed is 0, and you can lose control just ducking from the shot. At a lower speed you can hit the brakes and hit the gas to throw off the others aim compleatly.
Lastly if you are in real danger, you have to get over the aversion to wrecking the car. Hitting another car or a gate is just against our way of doing business. The hardest thing to teach professional limo drivers is to hit the other car.
We have all been stoped in traffic, but see driveways we can head down to get out of it, or parking lots we can cut thru, both are illegal, but are effective if you are in danger. I often use them to check to see if I am being followed. A person that will violate the law following you is probably a real danger to you.
Keep thinking as you drive, how would I get out of a problem right now. Where would I go to get to safety right now. This will keep you safer,
Sunday, January 8, 2012
In the end your Security Is in your hands
This is a statement that can have many meaning, but my meaning is pretty basic. Police can help, but are more a response than your security. Weapons are pretty much the same thing, it is a possible response, not your security.
You are your security, Police or Weapons are tools, that can be used to enhance your security. Locks, fences, guard dogs, are all just tools that can be used to enhance your security.
What you fear, an emotion at base level, and how you deal with that fear, to me is your security. If you fear getting robbed, then you can deal with it, by bigger locks, even buying a wepon. Both of these can be tools to reduce your fear. Or you can get rid of your money, and deal with it that way, which is a very irrational way to deal with that fear, but if you look at some folks on the extream, that is pretty much how they deal with it.
Awareness of what you are in fear of, is a good start, then look at your responses and the tools available, to develop a rational response or security.
News papers or broadcasts, need to deal with your emotions to get you to listen to them or read them. Then you may listen to what they are trying to sell, which is how they stay in business.
Sometimes they do it by building on fear, and will run stories on robbery, and rape and other mahem Sometimes, they do it by building on stories that reduce fear, and will run stories on new buildings, new progress in medicin. But in anycase it is an emotion they need to deal with to keep you reading and or listening, watching what ever.
So when you sit down, and I suggest you do so, and list your fears, remember you are quite possibly dealing with things you have heard or read from newscasts. When I work with clients doing this list, we often go over what has driven that fear. Terrorism is a real big one now days, have you ever been involved with terrorism? Most, in fact in the very high 90% have not, they are dealing with issues that they have read, heard, or watched.
Thefts, normally have been a fear, that we all either have or know someone that has dealt with. So we take that one on first in may cases. In most cases, we then find that someone found a opportunity we gave them. Like leaving a door or window unlocked, or left a bag out of our sight, all things we can deal with.
When we list our fears, we need to deal with each of them in this same way. Pretty soon we will have a list of things we can do that will rationaly deal with the fears. Most will be fairly simple, either locking something, or not going or doing something. But most will deal with our awareness of the fear, or even lack of fear untill it is to late. Once we are aware, then we can make rational decisions, to live with a fear, and go to that bar or party, or walk down that street, or park in that area. Or we can make a just as rational decision to not do some of these things, ever, not as much, or in someother way.
So the first task in Security you, is to list your fears, and then work on your responses to them.
Rich
You are your security, Police or Weapons are tools, that can be used to enhance your security. Locks, fences, guard dogs, are all just tools that can be used to enhance your security.
What you fear, an emotion at base level, and how you deal with that fear, to me is your security. If you fear getting robbed, then you can deal with it, by bigger locks, even buying a wepon. Both of these can be tools to reduce your fear. Or you can get rid of your money, and deal with it that way, which is a very irrational way to deal with that fear, but if you look at some folks on the extream, that is pretty much how they deal with it.
Awareness of what you are in fear of, is a good start, then look at your responses and the tools available, to develop a rational response or security.
News papers or broadcasts, need to deal with your emotions to get you to listen to them or read them. Then you may listen to what they are trying to sell, which is how they stay in business.
Sometimes they do it by building on fear, and will run stories on robbery, and rape and other mahem Sometimes, they do it by building on stories that reduce fear, and will run stories on new buildings, new progress in medicin. But in anycase it is an emotion they need to deal with to keep you reading and or listening, watching what ever.
So when you sit down, and I suggest you do so, and list your fears, remember you are quite possibly dealing with things you have heard or read from newscasts. When I work with clients doing this list, we often go over what has driven that fear. Terrorism is a real big one now days, have you ever been involved with terrorism? Most, in fact in the very high 90% have not, they are dealing with issues that they have read, heard, or watched.
Thefts, normally have been a fear, that we all either have or know someone that has dealt with. So we take that one on first in may cases. In most cases, we then find that someone found a opportunity we gave them. Like leaving a door or window unlocked, or left a bag out of our sight, all things we can deal with.
When we list our fears, we need to deal with each of them in this same way. Pretty soon we will have a list of things we can do that will rationaly deal with the fears. Most will be fairly simple, either locking something, or not going or doing something. But most will deal with our awareness of the fear, or even lack of fear untill it is to late. Once we are aware, then we can make rational decisions, to live with a fear, and go to that bar or party, or walk down that street, or park in that area. Or we can make a just as rational decision to not do some of these things, ever, not as much, or in someother way.
So the first task in Security you, is to list your fears, and then work on your responses to them.
Rich
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