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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: freedom
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 11:20:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 11:20:14 1986
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	While I wouldn't want to contradict someones personal experiences,
	I should point out as regards the traffic safety record for West
	Germany that their auto fatality rate (per 100 million vechicle
	kilometers) is 80 percent higher than ours.



>         From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
>
>              West Germans  do not  write their  traffic laws for the most
>         dufless nerd in the land as we do;   that  person is  directed to
>         the train  station (Bahnhof) and the traffic laws are written for
>         normal, intelligent, competant people.  There are no seat-belt or
>         air-bag laws in Germany, no speed limits on the autobahns outside
>         major city limits, and  minimal restrictions  elsewhere.  Traffic
>         normally moves  THROUGH cities  at 45  - 55 mph or so.  There are
>         amber lights on RED at intersections  so  that  there  are  no 15
>         second lags after a light turns green before anybody moves.
>
>              Surprisingly given  all of  this, there  are very few wrecks
>         and mishaps by American Standards, and  about 1/10  the number of
>         cops driving  around that  we are used to.  As a general rule, it
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