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In article <__9m6.147$FS3.18996@sjc-read.news.verio.net>, Doc wrote:
>Doing something wrong, stupid, and dangerous to other people 
>just because your chance of escaping without consequences are 
>good is still doing something wrong, stupid, and dangerous to 
>other people. Blaming consequences on the weather is like blaming 
>the cop for the traffic ticket... Yeah, if they hadn't been 


This deserves a followup, since it sounds like a response
of Biblical-proportioned wrath to what I intended as a
light-hearted tagline, though I don't know if you intended
it that way. 

The average following distance on a road like the Beltway
represents the consensus of what is safe under given
conditions. (I happen to think that it requires too much
hitting the brake pedal to keep it safe, and so I prefer a
longer distance, but that's more a matter of taste.) The
extraordinary number of accidents along the East coast when
the storm hit means, most likely, that the conditions
deteriorated faster than most people had ever experienced,
especially given the series of mild winters in the area up to
now. It was a matter of lack of flexibility, not of being
stupid or having dangerous intentions.

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