Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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- Subject: Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:01:01 -0600
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On 02/28/07 22:34, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Mitja Podreka wrote:
>> It can comfortably run at speeds which are within the
>> speed limits and is probably as safe as
>> Hummer and similar monsters.
>
> If you think "well within speed limits" and "safe" are one and the same,
> you're sorely mistaken. What a lot of politicians and public safety officials
> are finally waking up to is that the problem isn't the 99 cars going in the
> same direction at 80mph. It's the idiot out in the left lane doing 65mph
> "because it's the speed limit" and obstructing the other vehicles.
>
> Speed is not nearly as dangerous as the *difference of speed*.
As in, the difference in speed between you and the tree you just
smashed into after losing control because you were fiddling with the
stereo.
>
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