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Article #302Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00
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In <slrn74kqe7.fb.joel-garry@home.com> joel-garry@nospam.home.com (Joel
Garry) writes:
>I'm afraid I don't see the justification that more lane changes cause more
>accidents to the extent that there should be a law against it. I don't
>think many others do either. Much better to simply be cognizant of your
>surroundings and act accordingly.
That more lane changes will cause more accidents is easy to verify.
Each month make lange changes at a faster rate then you did the previous
month. You will notice your accident rate increase noticeably at some
point.
Having a 0.01% blood alcohol level does not mean that a motorist will
have an accident. In fact many careful drivers with this much alcohol
might never have an accident. Others with less alcohol, or no alcohol
will have accidents. It's impossible to measure an individual driver's
blood alcohol and predict with any certainty whether or not he will have
an accident. The correlation between high blood alcohol and accidents
is only statistical and indirect. Yet DUI is illegal. Do you think
there should be no law against DUI?
I would venture to guess that lane changes cause at least as many
accidents as DUI does.
If we make illegal only those behaviors that actually, predictably cause
accidents, then we should make only actual collisions illegal. "No
vehicle shall collide with another." How helpful do you think that
would be?
--
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,bc94924373ae896d X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public From: c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com (Rahul Dhesi) Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right) Date: 1998/11/12 Message-ID: <72ec78$t9b$1@samba.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 411036290 References: <359a80d5.54993706@news.v-wave.com> <359a8bf8.15550530@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <6ne8f0$8c0$1@big.aa.net> <359ac584.30283825@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <359B0054.6CB1@pop.removethistomailme.net> <35add847.5964757@news.earthlink.net> <36491ab1.31513994@news.earthlink.net> <71bht9$hjf@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <3639a852.6249285@news.xara.com> <71ceo4$rm7$1@scnews.sc.intel.com> <363A21BF.FD14582@csi.com> <363CB38E.CC340AFE@us.oracle.com> <363CDD1F.C2273028@csi.com> <363d0056.189274784@news.powersurfr.c <slrn746nkh.e3.joel-garry@home.com> <722f7p$i7l$1@samba.rahul.net> <slrn74f7i8.e4.joel-garry@home.com> <3648F7CA.AB1624D1@prodigy.net> <slrn74i8mf.hq.joel-garry@home.com> <72bon3$e35$1@samba.rahul.net> <slrn74kqe7.fb.joel-garry@home.com> Organization: a2i network X-Comment: Encoded From: line allows replies that preserve original subject Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi