Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving

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From: Walt Horning
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 00:00

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dmc@dmc.com (dmc) wrote:

>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?

Not only that, but people after cutting others off from the entrance
ramp, seem to forget where the accelerator pedal is. They do not want
to accelerate because of a false sense of feeling like a "safe"
driver, but instead cause 20 cars to nearly rear-end one another, or
indeed they actually do collide.

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From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
Date: 1998/07/01
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