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Article #1278Re: flavors of MA cops
From: Ping-Shun Huang
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:36
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:36
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I learned to drive in California. Maybe that disqualifies me from this discussion. :) Then again, I'm a pretty defensive driver. I had *NEVER* heard of the left lane referred to as "the passing lane". Certainly, you're supposed to pass on the left. But, I submit that using it exclusively as a passing lane isn't much safer. Suppose speed limit is 45, and that's how fast traffic flow is on the right lane. About 10% of the drivers want to go 50-55mph. Isn't it safer for them to just stay in the left lane, rather than just use the left lane as a passing lane and therefore have to change lanes every thousand yards? Suppose the mix was 50-50 instead of 90-10? I tend to think of left lanes as car-pool lanes, but I guess my metropolitan nature is showing. -- Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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Newsgroups: ne.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!pshuang From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops In-Reply-To: everettm@Cayman.COM's message of 5 Jan 93 14:47:48 GMT Message-ID: <PSHUANG.93Jan5193646@ninja.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: ninja.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1993Jan1.014835.3791@osf.org> <1993Jan4.162707.6097@osf.org> <106129@bu.edu> <EVERETTM.93Jan5094748@noman.Cayman.COM> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:36:52 GMT Lines: 18