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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Surveillance
Message-ID: <279@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 16:54:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 16:54:13 1985
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>In article <260@aoa.UUCP> carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) writes:
>>Once again, someone who knows nothing of constitutional law (and apparently
>>also is unconvinced by the relationship beteween speed limit and highway
>>deaths) is flaming all over this newsgroup. I'm also amused (??) by the 
>>conflicting desire for "states' rights" and free dollars from the feds.
>>
>     Grrrr.  I was going to stay out of this one.  I was going to leave well
>enough alone, but I can no longer.  Extreemely minor flame:  There is no such
>thing as "free dollars" form the feds.  That money ultimately comes from you
>and me (actually, from any work that we do).
Of course it does. Would you prefer secession?>
>     The main reason that I am opposed to the 55 speed limit is because 90% of
>the people that I know don't obey it (even those that say they do, get on
>the freeway and do at least 60).  I grew up driving under this totally
>arbitrary limit (it does not reflect the speed at which one can safely drive
>the road), and thus since the only safe way to drive on the freeway is to
>move along with the flow (I've yet to drive in a state where that is less
>than 60-65, and yes, I've driven in > 50% of the states) I become
>conditioned to exceeding the speed limit by 10 or so mph.  I also get the
How old are you? Us greyhairs (I'm 30) can well remember when the
speed limit was 70, and the traffic averaged 75-80. Thus your complaint
about speeding is well-intentioned but invalid.



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