When driving, especially on the highway, you really never know when circumstances will suddenly change.  At highway speed, you’re moving at about 80 feet per second or faster.  If something suddenly pops into your path, you may only have a second or two to react.

Watch this video, taken from the Modern Driver DashCam.  In this clip, a living room recliner blows out of the bed of a pickup truck in the right lane before bouncing to a stop in the left lane of a highway.

Notice that the only escape path was to quickly move into the adjacent lane – a move which in only possible if the lane is vacant.  One of the most important things to remember about driving on multilane roads is to always leave yourself an escape path.  Try to position yourself in the traffic flow so that the lane next to you is empty, and other cars are at least two seconds away.  If you’re constantly maintaining this emergency buffer space around your car, dodging an attacking recliner is a relatively easy maneuver.