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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: "Child in car" signs
Message-ID: <925@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 15:23:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 15:23:39 1985
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I think if a child in the car is a distraction to the driver, then that 
car shouldn't be on the road, since other motorists have the right to
expect that their fellow motorists are being fully attentive to what is
going on around their cars, not in them. (Sorry, I omitted to quote the
line I'm responding  to.) However, the point of these signs, in my
opinion (this was my initial reaction on seeing one for the first time)
is to remind the "assholes", whatever good that will in fact do, that 
they are not sharing the road only with other "assholes", but with 
people who have a fundamental care about the safe outcome of their
journey. I think such signs help to reduce the psychological isolation,
again, whatever good that does, of drivers surrounded by "assholes," in
that they have a visible indication that there are other concerned 
drivers on the road. Also, it is not necessary to be bumper-to-bumper
to read such signs--you can see them quite easily from a neighboring
lane on an expressway.