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Originally Posted by LivingAlmostLarge
Seeker good question. I don't know. Probably not as bad as if my DH was driving and his friend was in the passenger seat carpooling to work.
But then that's the chance you take carpooling right? Everytime someone steps foot in your car, then it should be that we should all ride alone.
I'm not sure. I mostly ride public transit and if something happened to me the bus driver would they feel bad?
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My point is that you'd feel guilty about loaning your car.
Certainly there's risk in everything we do.... but it's a choice we make. Same with the car. When we're handing the tool we own, it's quite different then when someone else is borrowing that tool and chaos reigns. You'd feel the guilt of timing, and beging to ask yourself the questions: "why did I lend him my car?" "What if I had waited one hour?" "What if he borrowed another person's car?" etc.
No matter how "responsible" a person is, an accident could happen with more than minor ramifications. If something affects someone for the rest of their lives, I know that I personally would feel guilty... yes, even realizing that the accident itself was out of my control.
I wouldn't loan my car to anyone else even in a dire need.
On the other hand, I have taken friends/neighbor with need into my car and driven them whereever. My responsibility, and my control -- if something happens, so be it.... but I would not feel as much guilt knowing that I was there and did whatever I could to prevent that happening.
Just my two cents.... but the above has happened to a college friend of mine while "sharing" another students car (a long while ago). The police called him on the phone, not really expecting an answer, because they thought it was him in the car, not his friend who had been rushed to the hospital. The student in question had to get another car, his insurance went up, to not speak of the mental anguish both people felt because of what happened to his friend those many years ago.