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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
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Date: 8 May 89 18:28:19 GMT
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In article <478@bnr-fos.UUCP> schow%BNR.CA.bitnet@relay.cs.net (Stanley Chow) writes:
>If you feel like a tirade against speeders, just do it. Why do you have
>to drag me into something I did not say?

Heh, who's on a tirade against speeders?  *I* often drive above the
speed limit... NOW who's not reading what someone else posted?!  :-)

>>         [...]                                        Pardon
>>me, but isn't it the drivers who disregard the law, common sense, and
>>civility who endanger the lives of law abiding (well, relatively
>>speaking, since we ARE talking about speeding :-), courteous drivers?  
>>
>
>What is your definition of a "courteouse driver" that lets you equate
>courteouse driving with driving below the speed limit?

Whoa!  Where did I say courtesy = below speed limit driving?
Courteous drivers often speed...  

>>If I am doing 120 on the 401 and some nutcase comes screaming up
>>behind me, weaving in and out of the lanes and slams his brakes on
>>right behind me, which one of us is the dangerous one?
>>
>
>Depending on the traffic flow at the time, either of you can be the
>dangerous culpit. 

True.
But I was working under the assumption that I am not a dangerous left
lane bandit.

>Stanley Chow        BitNet:  schow@BNR.CA

Sorry for the apparent obnoxiousness of my comments, but you seemed to
imply that slow (ie. speed limit) drivers were the dangerous ones
(which WOULD have indicated to me that you like to speed an awful lot
and get annoyed at speed limit drivers -- which I feel is not
justified!).  I was trying to point out that speeders are more likely
to be discourteous (since they're in a hurry) than are slower (speed
limit) drivers, and hence more dangerous.
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Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada