From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!cires!harkins@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: greedy??
Article-I.D.: cires.1966
Posted: Tue Dec  7 13:53:48 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 02:47:57 1982

re: "primary motivation" (greed or not); i'd suggest you have a look
at the cornerstone: Adam Smith's ...Wealth of Nations; call it what
you like, self interest is a normal part of our makeup
re: 55 mph and traffic death; i feel rather strongly that the problem
is not one of speed, though that may well be a correlate; the problem
is lousy drivers at any speed; i have long thought that driver's ed
programs should have as an integral aspect an intense experience
on a "skidpad"; knowing how to handle a skid (and let's face it, a skid
is what you have whenever you lose control for whatever reason) is partly
intellectual but mostly a matter of getting your reflexes trained to
do the right thing "instinctively"; the only way to do that is to do it!!
try to find a local sports car club that runs gymkhana or autocross events
and take your street car out and flog it to find out what happens when
you go sideways; i used to do these things regularly and have never seen
anything like a serious accident since speeds are usually kept low and
the whole thing is a race against a clock only (a twisty course laid out
on a shopping center parking lot with orange pylons typically), so
all you have to lose is "face"; try it...  ernie harkins