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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
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Date: 18 Apr 89 16:09:18 GMT
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Maybe part of the problem is that there's a really wide variation in speeds at
the upper end.  To someone doing 120 or 130 km/h, 110 looks really slow; but
the 110 driver might have speeded up from 100 to pass safely.  It's possible to
follow the "safe passing" rules advocated by the "we like to drive fast but
skilfully" crowd and still have people driving into your trunk.  And it's
possible to be driving what seems dangerously fast to the "we like to drive
safely and keep our insurance premiums down" crowd and still be intensely
irritating to the person behind you.

People in cars seem to view each other as irresponsible idiots more than they
do in any other situation.  I've always thought that was because the means of
communication between drivers were so few.  But this discussion seems to be
going on at the usual drivers' level of cursing and finger-waving, even though
we're using this ultra-modern (well, mid-70's) communication channel.  One of
us even complained about the Chinese character in Indra Laksono's .signature!

Let's just remember [he said pompously] that we might meet each other sometime.
-- 
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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