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In article <1993Jan21.143852.71@logica.co.uk> adrian@pluto.logica.co.uk writes:
>darby@andersen.co.uk (Dave Darby) writes:

>Yeah - HEAR HEAR!  To my mind the police could do a great many things worse
>than just automatically stopping anyone who pulls into another driver's
>stopping distance.  These crass and selfish people create a situation in which
>good drivers are discouraged because they continually get unfairly delayed by
>these arseholes.

And how much do you get delayed by a selfish driver forcing you back a
few car lengths? A few seconds at most, until the unlucky break that you
miss a traffic light change, which turns it into maybe half a minute.

I recommend an experiment: drive from home to the office like a selfish
maniac a few times, and then drive to the office carefully and safely,
comparing the two average times. I expect you to be amazed at how little
difference it makes.  I was, and that experiment was one of the reasons
I stopped struggling to stay ahead in my rush hour commutes. It didn't
make sense being at least ten times more likely to have an accident for
the sake of arriving at work at most one minute earlier.
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