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- From: stecz@pencom.com (John Steczkowski)
- Newsgroups: austin.talk
- Subject: Re: speed traps in Austin
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164550.17546@pencom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:45:50 GMT
- References: <BzDK8I.tro@austin.ibm.com>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Pseudo User)
- Reply-To: stecz@pencom.com
- Distribution: austin
- Organization: Pencom Software
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- In article <BzDK8I.tro@austin.ibm.com> repass@austin.ibm.com (Jim Repass)
- writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec16.154221.1269@pencom.com>, stecz@pencom.com (John
- Steczkowski) writes:
- > > In article <SCANNON.42.724340533@novell.com> SCANNON@novell.com (Steve
- Cannon)
- > > writes:
- > > > What's the need to speed in the first place? :)
- > >
- > > It depends...On city streets I drive at the prevailing traffic speeds,
- don't
- > > change lanes excessively, etc. On highways, I drive at whatever speed is
- > > comfortable and safe for conditions. Case in point. This weekend, I drove
- to
- > > Dallas (Reunion arena). From my house in Cedar Park, it is just under 200
- > > miles. On the way there (Saturday, starting at 7:30am). I made it to
- Reunion
- > > arena in 2.25 hours. As an experiment (and the weather was bad, I drove
- home
- >
- > Average speed >88 Miles per hour?
-
- sounds about right.
- >
- > > with my cruise control set on precisely 65mph). It took me 3.5 hours. So,
- by
- >
- > Average speed 57 Miles per Hour?
- >
- > Does this mean that on the way up you actually were going over 90 MPH?
- > Or does it mean that on the way down you stopped for dinner?
-
- On the way up, I was going about 90, no stops, didn't have to shup off cruise
- control except once or twice for slower traffic. On the way home, I went 55 in
- the 55mph sections, and 65 in the 65 mph sections, I also made a potty stop and
- had to shut the cruise control off a couple of times for traffic merging on
- highway. So those speeds sound about right.
-
- --
- John Steczkowski stecz@pencom.com
- "Achilles raised his spear, took careful aim, and hurled."
- from the Iliad
-