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

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:00
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On 11 Nov 1998 05:39:21 GMT, Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>In <3648F7CA.AB1624D1@prodigy.net> Tony Wang <tonyw44@prodigy.net> writes:
>
>>And that is a concept that Dhesi just doesn't get.  Somehow, he thinks that the
>>mere fact that you're changing lanes means you're dangerous.
>
>>Joel Garry wrote:
>
>>> Lane changes aren't unsafe
>>> unless they are performed unsafely.
>
>"Safe" vs "unsafe" is not a boolean choice.  There are degrees of
>safety.  Your degree of safety while staying in your lane at a steady
>velocity is greater than your degree of speed while changing lanes.
>Simply attacking me proves nothing -- if you have a real argument to
>make, make it.

I don't see that the degree of safety of changing lanes justifies a law
against it.  Every one of the millions of trips on the freeway every day
that doesn't get involved in an accident has changed lanes at least twice.
Tony attacking you just proves that you haven't communicated your arguments
particularly effectively.

>-- 
>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: joel-garry@nospam.home.com (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/11/11
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