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Re: Last minute lane changers

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From: Nathaniel McCabe
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:00
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Ok first off, what the hell are you doing 35 on city streets in snow for
anyways?  I've seen how the whole Puget Sound region reacts to just a few
inches of snow on the streets, not a single person can drive for shit in
snow there, including me (thats why I don't drive when snow is on the
ground).  When you go out driving around in conditions like that you need to
be more aware of the other idiots around you and drive slower than normal.
>
>You are full of it here, Rahul.  Calculate the length of time a car at
>90MPH, approaching an intersection where only the width of a 6' sidewalk
>separates the building from the street, is in your field of view.  You
>are going 35MPH.  Go ahead and assume that you are looking in the direction
>the car is coming from at that time, and that it is the maximum (ie,
>the car is in the right lane coming from the right, and you are in the
>left lane), with two lanes plus parking in all directions, two-way streets.
>
>Now calculate how much time you have to keep from being hit from a blind
>alley.  (This reduces the problem to how long the car takes to go the width
>of one lane plus parking plus the width of the sidewalk - about 22 feet,
>let's say.)
>
>>
>>See .sig. below.
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>>    "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: "Nathaniel McCabe" <pgunn@elp.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Last minute lane changers
Date: 1998/07/14
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