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

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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:00

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In <slrn74stbe.ko.joel-garry@home.com> joel-garry@nospam.home.com (Joel Garry) writes:

>On 13 Nov 1998 01:34:03 GMT, Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>>In <slrn74mu5k.e3.joel-garry@home.com> joel-garry@nospam.home.com (Joel
>>Garry) writes:
>>
>>>Assuming causation where none has been shown is silly.
>>
>>But I provided you with a simple exepriment to verify that a higher rate
>>of lane changes will result in more accidents.

>And the same can be said of speed, or removing steering components, or
>any other variable that can be manipulated until a chaotic event
>occurs.  It is a reducto ad absurdum argument, which may be fine for
>politics, but not so good for figuring out a rational method of
>improving highway safety.

But isn't it true that as you keep increasing speed, accident rate will
eventually get significantly high?  And that's the point there the speed
limit ought to be set?  There is nothing reducto ad absurdum about this:
if you want to decide what the speed limit ought to be, try to find a
threshold speed beyond which accidents significantly increase.

The same is true of other variables too, including the rate of lane
changes.

I don't see what's wrong with a law against driving unsafe vehicles
(e.g., vehicles from which critical steering components have been
removed).
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
a2i communications, a quality ISP
    "Any idiot can avoid automobile accidents that are his own fault.  It
     takes skill to avoid accidents that are the *other* person's fault."

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From: c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/11/15
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