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

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From: Brandon Sommerville
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:00

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DPH wrote:

>Every now and then, I do.  But they sure make it difficult.
>
>Coming home today from work - tailgater.  Wonderful.  Ignore.
>
>Coming back from the WalMart tonight - rear quarter-panel pacer.  Just puts nose of
>car even with back wheel. Clueless.  Speed up 3 mph, he drops back,. I drop back to
>former speed but still continue to pull away because he's now far enough back that
>he's driving his _own_ speed rather than keying off what I'm doing (see, I'm not the
>only one that adjusts to what others are doing).
>
>Really, you _have_ to drive with reference to what the other people are doing.  They
>are the obstacles, and you have to avoid them, whether that is driving around them
>when they are slow or speeding up when they are hanging on like a bad odor.
>Whatever, I expect it will always be thus unless there comes into being a whole new
>set of rules that makes a lot more sense than the ones we have now.

I never suggested ignoring other drivers, I suggested not letting them
set your habits.  Obviously you have to be aware of what's going on
around you, but don't cruise in the left lane because someone *might*
be a pacer.
-- 
Brandon

Caution: objects in the mirror may 
have flunked drivers education.

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From: grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/11/04
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