For those of you not familiar with my last encounter with the FINGER OF GOD on the road, let me regurgitate the story one more time.
I was driving back from the Alaska State Gymnastics Meet, the final meet of the year if you do not have high level gmynasts to qualify for Regionals or Nationals. At the time, I only had compulsory level gymnasts, I was still building this program. Many of those kids were State Champions at their levels. It was March of 2013.
It had been snowing during the day, but the temps were hovering right around freezing, and while most of the road home seemed clear of snow, I hit a patch of Black Ice near around where the Walmart exit is on the Glenn. In under 1 second, I felt the sterring wheel lose the grip of the road, and my SUV started heading for the median and into Oncoming Traffic. I was doing maybe 55 or so, driving conservatively because even though the speed limit was 65, the conditions did not warrant driving at that speed.
When I began to skid into the oncoming traffic, I did as I was trained on the Snyder National Skid Pad in Green Bay, and I turned into the skid. It did not however bring the vehicle under control, I just started fishtailing, going one way and the other every couple of seconds. The options were in those moments to go one way or the other, to quit trying to control this vehicle and go off the road. I had the choice of going off road into oncoming traffic or to go off road on the embankments to my right. Many Lampost and signs I could hit on the way off that way. When I saw a space between obstacles and the vehicle was pointed in the right direction, I took my one and only opportunity to save myself. I took my foot off the brake and I stopped trying to control the skid and I just let her go, BALLISTIC style. I hit the embankment at maybe around 40 mph, and me and the SUV went AIRBORNE for probably 30-50 feet, not sure on this. When we made Earth Contact again it was in freshly fallen snow and I was able to brake and come to a stop maybe another 100' down the embankment. After taking about a 10 minute breather, I was able to back my SUV down from this embankment and onto the On Ramp from the Walmart exit at the Seward-Meridian highway.
No AI could have made those decisions in the way I did, as fast as I did. I knew where I was, I knew the road. An AI in control of that vehicle almost certainly would have ended up running into oncoming traffic, and taken out other lives in addition to my own. My result was ZERO damage, to either myself or the SUV.
This is the God's honest truth of what occurred, and I have a witness. By chance, another coach I know was just behind me when it occured, and he saw the whole thimg. He pulled off the road to see what happened to me, but by the time he got back to the location, I had already backed out of it. I did not fidn out that he had seen it until a couple of days later when I was retelling the story at the gym.
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