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Article #1640Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
From: Joel Garry
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:25:54 GMT, E. Faubion <in@the.sig> wrote: >"Mark Folsom" <folsomman@redshift.com> wrote: > >>Some people think very irrationally about >>possible events having terrible consequences and smallish probabilities. > >I've never met an accident victim who expected the crash to happen. I saw a bag lady step out into high speed traffic. She may have just been out of it, but I got the distinct impression she did it on purpose. Of course, _I_ didn't meet her, but the person who did appeared quite distressed by the experience of hitting someone with a Blazer at freeway speed. And the shopping cart was totalled. > >>That being said, it's still the case that high speed driving on freeways, >>when conditions allow, is as safe as plodding along and risking falling >>asleep. > >Both can and do result in crashes. > >Now where's that computer program you promised? You said you could >write it and I'm waiting. > > >efaubion@oklahoma.net >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6123/ -- These opinions are my own and not necessarily those of Information Quest or Pebble In The Sky http://www.informationquest.com mailto:jgarry@nospameiq.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/joel_garry Remove nospam to reply. mailto:joel_garry@compuserve.nospam.com "See your DBA?" I AM the @#%*& DBA!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry) Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving Date: 1998/06/30 Message-ID: <slrn6pit5r.m6s.joelga@pebble.org> X-Deja-AN: 367574576 References: <35941A85.7310@erols.com> <35952cff.791952@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <3595D2FF.1DB5@richmond.infi.net> <3595f877.52888752@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6n6u43$2s5@netaxs.com> <3596fed9.31594980@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6n71as$huc$11@paperboy.ids.net> <35970e65.35575605@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6n7vjo$2jt$3@paperboy.ids.net> <3597c318.6916452@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6n9ckd$lq5$1@paperboy.ids.net> <3598452c.40221930@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6natmh$7io$4@supernews.com> <35992c69.4442153@news.okc.oklahoma.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:27:10 PDT Reply-To: joelga@nospam.pebble.org Organization: Natural Surrealist Light Peoples Party High Speed Transport Division Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,ca.driving