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Article #1111Re: If everyone would drive GEO metros
From: Don Quijote
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:19
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:19
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"Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1008mab5ql40b14@corp.supernews.com>... > > As for the replacement, *America should be opened to every car big and > > small made around the world*, not the way it is now, where you can't > > get most small cars available to the world. > > > > The next paragraph is about safety, and the single largest reason that the > world's offering of small cars is not available here is safety. Funny that they don't improve safety by the single most effective way: TRAFFIC LAWS, and, of course, ENFORCEMENT. Can you provide me any proof that Europe got a worse accident record than America? Do you know--and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out--that the slow and the fast, the big and the small could even get along fine? Well--I know it's too hard--I tell you that if you enforce passing on the left and signal lights for one our roads will stop being the jungle they have become. > > > > Regarding safety, training and comprehensive enforcement, beyond the > > profit-making speeding ticket, should do the trick. Or perhaps some > > special license should be required. > > > > And of course, the Law of the Jungle should be replaced by Traffic > > Laws... ;) > > I feel no predatory behavior on the part of other drivers. The law of the > jungle seems to be working just fine to me. A 5 ton SUV zigzaging around my GEO Metro makes me as comfortable as being put in a cage with a hungry lion. But, of course, I applaud your courage. Unless you are the lion in this case... ;)
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