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  1. Newsgroups: nz.general
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!acmebbs!kilroy
  3. From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
  4. Subject: Re: Curve-Smoothing (was: Holiday Road Period)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.070819.25239@acme.gen.nz>
  6. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:08:19 GMT
  7. Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
  8. References: <1993Jan15.224039.1909@gaya.gp.co.nz> <gXqJXB10w165w@actrix.co.at> <C17oA6.Isq@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1993Jan22.094434.13372@waikato.ac.nz>
  9. Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
  10. Lines: 15
  11.  
  12. ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
  13.  
  14. > I don't know about the original poster, but I would say that traffic speeds
  15. > are too high if they don't give you enough time to react to unexpected
  16. > situations which might occur. Like a tyre blowout--not on your car (naturally),
  17. > but on the one in front of you. Or somebody switching lanes without indicating.
  18. > Or a truck meandering across the median strip, right into your path.
  19.  
  20. So you'd advocate a daytime speed limit here in NZ of around 60km/h and a
  21. nighttime limit of under 40?
  22.  
  23.                         - k
  24. -- 
  25. Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
  26. "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
  27.