Path: utzoo!lsuc!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <794@mks.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 22:23:56 GMT
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <3098@looking.UUCP>
Distribution: ont
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <3098@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> To pass, you should accelerate by a significant amount, even if if takes
> you over the limit (8-)), pass quickly, and then return to the slow
> lane.  Yes, as far as I understand it, the law says you are permitted
> and supposed to exceed the limit to pass. 

Well, Brad, I'm willing to defer to higher authority, but I've never
heard of such a thing.  And the problem with it (besides the legalities)
is that the passer often returns to his previous speed minus 2 km/h,
thus making him slower than the car he passed.  You must have seen this
-- where someone is passing you with a trail of cars behind him in the
left lane, then pulls in front of you and slows down.  What a bummer. 
No, I think the best bet is to maintain a constant speed at all times
(but not running into things in front of you :-), moving into the
passing lane when necessary, and returning to the right lane when
possible. 

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