🚀 go-pugleaf

On 9 Jul 1998 16:50:58 -0500, Craig A. Johnston <caj@urth.autarch.com> wrote:
>
>Reckless driving and speeding fines could be weighted by the
>vehicle's mass -- how are you going to hurt someone in an
>automobile on a motorcycle?  Not easily.  Too bad for those
>idiots in SUVs who drive too fast for their pathetic, wallowing
>vehicles and tailgate other drivers...

Actually, this does happen.  Motorcycle t-bones car, motorcyclist launches
over car and isn't hurt too bad, motorcycle punches through door/window
and kills car occupant.

>
>Taillights that had two colors (one for acceleration in the
>direction of travel and one for acceleration opposite the
>direction of travel -- there's no such thing as 'deceleration.')
>and varied their intensity depending on the rate of acceleration
>would provide aware drivers with more information on which to base
>decisions.  

This has been proposed at various times.

>
jg
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