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Larger exposition. This has been on the most emailed in nytimes for at least a day now so a lot of you may have already seen it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11schmidt.html

There are certainly reasons to be skeptical. In addition to age, consider for example the fact that it tends to be highly correlated with automatics vs manuals.

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My mom was almost in a bad car accident due to something like this. she was walking in a strip mall when a car plowed into a dry cleaners about 10 feet ahead of her. Her friend almost fainted.

it was a teen and she said she accidentally pressed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. the place was destroyed but fortunately no one was hurt.

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