Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote:
>
> > It's a long time since I took my car test, and I had no problems with
> > the emergency stop, but the examiner's instructions were "...without
> > locking the wheels", so I'd guess any kind of lock would be a fail.
> > Dunno what they do now that ABS is common.
>
> Does sound like your driving tests are much better than ours. I still
> don't understand how anyone can actually _fail_ one over here, but people
> occasionally do.
And California even lets them drive anyway!
> Actually, there's no roundabouts in my part of the country. I suspect
> there's not many roundabouts IN my country. :)
If we're talking US, it all depends on the city. They're common in
and around Portland, OR. I'll warn you right now that there's a lot
of roundabouts in Beaverton, and Beavertonians drive about as well as
Californians. You can spot them because they're the ones going the
wrong way around the roundabouts...
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