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From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: FAST DRIVING
Message-ID: <814@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 17:46:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 17:46:47 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jan-84 07:29:26 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Breaking the speed limit is breaking the law.  Laws are made to discourage
specific behavior.  If someone is willing to pay the price, that person
will continue to do so until that person thinks the cost of being caught is 
too great.  If the public perceives the risk is too great for society, they
should increase the cost.

The speed limit is not a good way to increase gas conservation.  Encouraging
people to drive less by improving public transit is the best way.  Who cares
how many mpg's someone else gets?  It's their money.  Anyone who really wants
energy conservation wouldn't be willing to settle for a reduced speed limit!

The speed limit is not a good way to increase automobile safety.  Making people
safer drivers is the best way, or perhaps making safer cars.  I don't believe
that cars are getting safer - big heavy cars with CAR FRAMES were safer than
most of the aluminum, plastic, and thin sheet metal that is in the showroom 
today.  Let's get the worst 30% of the drivers off the road!  Let's have road
tests each year, some people don't even know how far their fenders stick out!

Carl W. Amport		Naperville, IL.