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Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 01:40:35 -0400, Tony Wang <tonyw44@prodigy.net.nospam> wrote:
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>
>Rahul Dhesi wrote:
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>> This assumes there is sufficient room on the highway to hold all
>> vehicles at safe following distances while still leaving the leftmost
>> lane nearly empty.  It also assumes that repeated lane changes do not
>> increase the chances of an accident.  It also assumes (when there are
>> two lanes of traffic in your direction) that highway onramps are long
>> enough to let merging traffic easily accelerate to highway speed before
>> it gets on the highway, thus allowing normal highway traffic to safely
>> drive at a steady highway speed in the rightmost lane.
>>
>> None of these three assumptions are true in most urban parts of
>> California.
>
>And California would be different than the rest of the country in this
>regard because?
>
>Plus, last time I checked, the interstates in San Diego and Los Angeles all
>had multiple lanes -- as in more than two.  Come to think of it, the ones I
>drove on had like four or five.
>
>So you mean to tell me that you can't leave that left lane alone except for
>passing?  Bull.

Spoken like a true furriner.

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From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/07/09
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