The car was in front of me on a busy highway, therefore, they shouldn't have been approaching at all. My eyes were on the road, but the fact that they slowed down without hitting their brakes is very hard to tell when you're directly behind a car. The law in NJ states that the car who hits the back of another car is at fault regardless of the stupid actions of the car in front - so for example, if the car in front backs up and hits the car behind it, the car behind it is still considered at fault even though it was the stupid action of the car in front's driver.
In this case, the car in front of me was lucky I was paying attention and had the reflexes to back up what I noticed (my father would never have stopped in time). I would always say it was the fault of the front driver for taking his/her eyes off the road to argue, not pushing the brake (which at least would have alerted me), and for doing something illegal (driving 10mph in a 65mph zone is illegal unless there's something wrong with your car), but chances are high if I'd hit them, I'd have been to blame. (As for leaving enough space - this is New Jersey, if you leave enough space to stop between you and the car in front of you, another car pulls in to that space.)
A 4.0 would sort of be like a First, but a First where all of your final grades are above 70 (there's nothing higher than a 4.0 and you can only get it by getting an A (90 or above) in all your classes).
More like a not so secret club. You get access to special classes, more attention from professors, and it looks good on your resume. The thing that I don't want to do for it is there's a final project you have to do, and since the chances of me finishing a degree at Rutgers are small, there really doesn't seem to be a point.
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Date: 2010-06-15 02:01 am (UTC)In this case, the car in front of me was lucky I was paying attention and had the reflexes to back up what I noticed (my father would never have stopped in time). I would always say it was the fault of the front driver for taking his/her eyes off the road to argue, not pushing the brake (which at least would have alerted me), and for doing something illegal (driving 10mph in a 65mph zone is illegal unless there's something wrong with your car), but chances are high if I'd hit them, I'd have been to blame. (As for leaving enough space - this is New Jersey, if you leave enough space to stop between you and the car in front of you, another car pulls in to that space.)
A 4.0 would sort of be like a First, but a First where all of your final grades are above 70 (there's nothing higher than a 4.0 and you can only get it by getting an A (90 or above) in all your classes).
More like a not so secret club. You get access to special classes, more attention from professors, and it looks good on your resume. The thing that I don't want to do for it is there's a final project you have to do, and since the chances of me finishing a degree at Rutgers are small, there really doesn't seem to be a point.