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From: pat@alice.UucP (Patty Solomon)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: The story about the 85 mph speedometers
Message-ID: <4804@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 16:41:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 16:41:45 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 06:18:46 EST
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marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough) writes:

>Well everything was going along as planned for several years until
>1982 a man traveling at a high rate of speed (over 85) went into a
>turn and went too wide and crashed off of the outside of the turn.  He
>subsequently sued and won the suit agains the NHTSD for removing his
>ability to properly judge his approach speed to the turn and therefore
>cause him to crash.

Might I inquire what this man's reply was when asked why he was doing
85+?  If highways are 55 with curves sometimes designated 45, anything
off the dial was against the NHTSD's posted recommendation.

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