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- From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas Tovornik)
- Subject: Re: Raising the limit
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.005932.22268@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <Bxonzx.GuJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 00:59:32 GMT
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- In article GuJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu, cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.175859.4771@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
- >>In article <1dv7t6INNr6h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> In a previous article, philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) says:
- >>|>
- >>|> >So, why don't those of you who both pay taxes and are allowed
- >>|> >to vote introduce some ballot measures of your own, to get the
- >>|> >speed raised to ... well ... say 90 m.p.h. on Interstates and
- >>|> >70 m.p.h. on restricted access divided highways ?
- >>|>
- >>|> that is the problem..you are talking to the enthusiats on here..
- >>|> unfortunately..DC knows that MOST US drivers have no business
- >>|> driving..and try to protect us all from those of us who fall
- >>|> into that catagory(myself included, BTW..i have yet to manage
- >>|> to take a REAL driver's training course...)..so..limits are
- >>|> made..and the enthusiasts alone cannot really change something.
- >>
- >>You seem to be saying that US drivers are generaly incompetent.
- >>I have to disagree - well, let me re-phrase that to say that they
- >>are no worse than drivers in many other countries, and in some respects
- >>are better.
- >>
- > Ok, so American drivers are better than those on the streets of Rome,
- >but that isn't saying much. We in America have, all in all, the worst drivers
- >in the non-third world. We pass on the right, go slow on the left, do our hair
- >in the rear view mirror, don't use our headlights in the rain, NEVER use our
- >Turn Signals. Of course, that is most people, not necessarily the ones who
- >read the NET.
-
- Aye, Canadians are nearly as bad, and much worse in Quebec.
-
- >>I have taken three driving tests, in three different countries, and
- >>have three driving licenses to prove it. There are SIGNIFICANT
- >>differences in the tests, and in the basic driving laws/styles,
- >>but I wouldn't say that the test that I took in Oregon was any less
- >>strict than anywhere else (they did want me to do things which would
- >>guarantee failure in other contries, and which would also upset police
- >>in most other countries, but thats another story).
- >>
- >>In the (not too distant) past, one of the reasons for high accident
- >>rates in the US was the horrible cars in use - with suspension
- >>designed to convince the driver that he was floating on a cloud,
- >>rather than being designed to keep the car on the road.
- >>
- >>That is now less true than it was.
- >>
- >>What is true now is that driving at 55 mph is liable to put the driver
- >>to sleep (and often does).
- >>
- >>But, getting back to the original point - do you REALY think that
- >>most US drivers WANT the 55 limit ?
- >>
- >>Philip
- >>
- >
- > I'd love to see the 70 mph limit, (hell, no limit would be great) but,
-
- I define the speed limit of my car as the top speed, period. :+)
-
- >A) Our roads arent' quite as smooth as Germany's, and life at 90 would be hell
- > our terrible roads.
-
- The roads are very good west of the continental divide. No frost heaving
- below the snow line. Heh, check out the roads in the Province of Quebec.
- They are the reason why my car's interior lost some screws to the seismic
- gods. :+(
-
- >B) Drivers suck here. See above.
-
- Yeah, all those morally-superior left-lane(right lane for all of you in RHD
- countries) BANDITS!!! :+)
-
- >C) American/Japaneese cars (the majority) are _much_ less safe than the great
- > European touring sedans... We don't have the equipment, I'd hate 90
- > in my Civic.
-
- We have the equipment but nobody wants to pay for it in an American car.
- I'd hate anything in a civic unless the car was standing still and she
- looked sexy! :+)
-
- Torque Monger
-
-