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

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:00
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In article <35A0548E.F2F58114@prodigy.net.nospam>,
Tony Wang  <tonyw44@prodigy.net.nospam> wrote:
}
}
}Rahul Dhesi wrote:
}
}> Not all motorists want to get into the same lane as you.  If you
}> carefully use such motorists as rolling road blocks, it's quite
}> practical to maintain a 2-second following distance.  The motorists who
}> claim it's impossible are simply trying to rationalize their own
}> tailgating.
}
}Whatever!
}
}Come and drive with me in the real world.  If I give someone six car
}lengths, someone's going to jump in there.  And then I have to slow down,
}let that person get six car lengths ahead, and then someone else will jump
}in.
}
}Why bother?

Dhesi is advocating deliberately riding side-by-side or just barely
staggered with another slowpoke in the other lane -- he's a lane
blocker.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
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From: russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/07/06
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