Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving

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From: dmc
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00

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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:28:29 GMT, whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
wrote:

> (1) make highways safe as poosible with guard rails down the middle
>     when opposing lanes are too close (unlike here)
> (2) driver training is mandatory. No training, no license
> (3) let them drive fast enough to ease congestion and thus actually
>     reduce deaths by increased limits or have none at all.

A very large problem with trying to implement this (at least in
Seattle) is that on-ramps often don't provide enough length for the
average car to accelerate to the posted speed limit, let alone a
higher speed.

Merging in Seattle is ridiculous. People try to merge into 60 mph
traffic at 40mph. The commuter lane (carpool) is often on the right,
too. Since traffic tends to move faster in the carpool lane, people
have to merge across high-speed traffic into stopped non-carpool
lanes. Gee, why would that cause a problem?

We just don't get it here in America.
*--
Daryl dmc
dmc@brig-a-doon.com

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From: dmc@dmc.com (dmc)
Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
Date: 1998/06/30
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