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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (Chuck Jones)
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Subject: Re: Fast driving
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 20:25:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 20:25:07 1984
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	I would like to coin a new term to use to refer to cars. 
Let's not call them cars, or autos, or mobiles, but a name that
really represents just what each driver is dealing with when that
driver is behind the wheel.

	The term is M.S.B.s, which is short for Mindless Steel
Boxes.  Maybe the owners manual should include the warning "brains
not included".  It seems that some (most ?) people don't realize
that driving is a full time job, and that some thought about what
your doing is required!  (I know that us nice netters aren't this
way.)  So far I have been hit three times in four years.  I was
rear-ended twice, once when I was stopped at a red light, and
the other time when I was stopped for a school bus (with all it's
lights flashing!!!).  The third was a stop sign runner.  In each
case the driver said they never saw me/the bus/the light/the sign!
In the case of the bus and red light I was hit 15 to 30 second after
I stopped.  The drives had hundreds of yards to see me, and hit me
at full speed!! (I almost got out of the way at the red light, by
trying to make a right as soon as I saw the car did not have room to
stop any more.)

	The point of all this is that speed limits, seatbelts, air
bags, and the rest do NOT prevent accidents.  Only drivers that pay
a least a moderate amount of attention while they drive will prevent
accidents.  DRIVE DEFENSIVELY!!

(As a point of interest, yes I was wearing my seatbelt each time,
and never got a scratch.  However, the women who hit me by the
school bus was not, nor was the small child she was busy yelling at
when she hit me.  Both had to be taken to the hospital, and their
car towed away, while my TC-3 and I drove away.)


I'd hate to read about any		Chuck Jones
of you in the paper.			...we13!ll1!cej