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John Gilmer wrote:

> "Aardwolf" <"se1aard"@@itis.com> wrote in message
> news:96797v$m3a$1@news.chorus.net...
> >
> >
> > "Ken M." wrote:
> >
> > > "How is the trooper supposed to figure out how long you were
> > > in there, 30 seconds? A minute?" asked Hayward Corley, a parks
> > > worker who commutes to Arlington County from Upper Marlboro.
> >
> > Ten seconds.  If it takes longer than ten seconds to pass anything up to
> > a double-trailer semi, it shows that the driver is not paying sufficient
> > attention to the task at hand, or is too timid about passing and needs
> > further driver training.
>
> Maybe you should go back for some simple mathematics training!
>
> If you pass at 10 MPH faster than the overtaken vehicle you are traveling
> 8.8 feet per second relative to the slow vehicle.   Tens second means that
> relative to the over taken vehicle you only spend 88 feet in the fast lane.

Yo John.  Check the batteries in the old calculator there buddy.

10mph = 14.7 fps

Ten seconds = 147 feet.

Trailers in this country are limited in most metro/urban regions to 55ft.  Plus
tractor, something like 75 feet.  No explain to me why you need more than 147
feet to pass a truck?


>
>
> Give you self some time, sport.   If you really pass in only 10 seconds you:
> 1) effectively tailgate before you start to pass; and 2) effectively cut off
> the driver you just pass.

<sigh>
<head on table, sobbing, pounding fist>



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