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Blowouts are only specifically called out as being dangerous because they tend to happen without highly obvious warning, require the user to take action to prevent them from causing other problems, and happen at highway speed.

Any situation that happens rarely and requires the average Joe to take action is going to be "dangerous" at scale because some people are inevitably gonna panic and screw it up.

Blowouts are something people feel they are not in control of so they fear it more than they should.



I had a blowout once that caused an immediate 180, and within a few seconds I was going backwards on the freeway.

Fortunately I wasn't driving an SUV at the time, but now I'm rather afraid (and I think rationally so) that if that happened in an SUV I'd roll over.




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