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- Newsgroups: nz.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!animal!joe
- From: joe@animal.gcs.co.nz (Joe Kuzak)
- Subject: Re: Curve-Smoothing (was: Holiday Road Period)
- Message-ID: <C1C7AL.4F@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
- References: <gXqJXB10w165w@actrix.co.at> <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz> <1993Jan20.093406.13304@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:37:29 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1993Jan20.093406.13304@waikato.ac.nz> bill@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >In article <C12zLL.7pI@animal.gcs.co.nz>, joe@animal.gcs.co.nz (Joe Kuzak) writes:
- >> In article <gXqJXB10w165w@actrix.co.at> paul@actrix.co.at (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
- >>>Well, after driving back from Prague to Vienna tonight, I've come to the
- >>>conclusion that NZ drivers aren't so bad after all. I was amazed at how
- >>>many drivers seem to think that there is a third lane in the middle of
- >>>the road, going their way -- and that somehow they are immune to
- >>>oncoming traffic. This was on a *very* dark night, with wet roads, and
- >>>poor visibility. The funny thing was, they would pull out and overtake
- >>>a stream of traffic even WITH oncoming headlights!
- >>>
- >>>I wonder where this puts apparent research that suggests NZ drivers are
- >>>worse than many in Europe?
- >>>
- >>>--
- >>>paul@actrix.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
- >>>Home Office in Vienna, Austria
- >>
- >> Nope....it further proves the point.
- >>
- >[stuff deleted]
- >>
- >
- >And I've driven on the autobahns, and they definitely do need a speed limit!
-
- Speed limits-------- Why? You may as well say that Porche BMW and MB put
- speed limiters on their cars.....absolute crap.
-
- Joe Kuzak
-