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Dave wrote in message <35963340.776955@news.ne.mediaone.net>...
>> This policy is being tested in Frederick County, Maryland.
>>Unfortunately, the only description I have is a biased editorial from
>>the Washington Post, which opposes this policy--which one would expect
>>from a liberal DC paper.  Still, this conveys the general gist of this
>>innovative solution to aggressive driving.
>
>I would definitely agree that the officers showed excessive force and
>a lack of understanding.  Thier behavior was undoubtedly excessive and
>totally inappropriate.

The original post mentioned that the lady failed to stop for a long time
while being pursued with siren, etc.  The cops never know what they will
confront when they get someone who refuses to pull over---drugs, alcohol,
insanity, criminals on the lam, etc.  Sometimes they stop someone and get
shot in the face.  A 58-year-old woman is not in the always harmless no
matter what category.

>But I agree with the basic idea: ticketing
>slow drivers.  People who drive excessively slow are just as much or
>more of a menace than fast drivers.

Slow drivers are in more accidents than fast ones are (at equal magnitude of
difference from the mean) and extremely slow ones are worse by orders of
magnitude.

>IMHO anyone who drives that slow
>is doubtlessly going to panic in any kind of emergency situation.  I
>think as people get older they should be given driving tests every
>couple of years.  My town has a lot of older people and I have been
>cut off, held up excessively, etc by older people who either aren't
>paying attention or just aren't capable of driving a car anymore.

Same here---many of them pull slowly out into traffic without even looking
to see if anyone is coming.  Maybe they just can't turn their heads any
more.

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Mark Folsom, P.E.
Consulting Mechanical Engineer
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