Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!edhew
From: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Keywords: traffic, flow, rhythm
Message-ID: <2009@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <3098@looking.UUCP> <794@mks.UUCP> <797@mks.UUCP>
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In article <797@mks.UUCP> mike@mks.UUCP (Mike Brookbank) writes:
>
>With all this discussion of Highway Driving Manners and Mores, what I
>would like to know is why drivers can't pay more attention to the rhythm
>of traffic and drive accordingly.

	<apparantly valid reasoning omitted>
>
>Sometimes, like late at night, it is viable (although illegal), to
>travel at 140 kmph because the there is plenty of room between cars and
>trucks to travel in the right hand lane and pass on the left.  Other
>times, like the above example, it just isn't reasonable.  So why can't
>we all pay more attention, like they do in Germany and Italy, to the
>traffic patterns and rhythms and learn to drive as a collective team
>rather than little aluminium wrapped egos.

The only 2 reasons I can think of are:

1/	political (the politicians have designed our laws in opposition
	to what I would consider a rather intelligent concept).  This
(I take the liberty to speculate) is probably due to the preponderence
of motorists who lack the skill and/or intelligence to make such a scheme
viable on our highway system.

2/	The motorists referred to in 1/ above.

		--ed		{edhew@egvideo.uucp}

>     Mike Brookbank                          Phone: (519)884-2251

  Ed. A. Hew	       Technical Trainer	       Xeni/Con Corporation
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