Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 4/2/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!mth From: mth@drutx.UUCP (Hamilton) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Radar Detectors and Legality Message-ID: <470@drutx.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 12:50:59 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.470 Posted: Fri Jun 15 12:50:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:10:08 EDT References: <809@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 47 T.C. Wheeler: It's drivers like you that keep the speed limit at 55. You don't feel safe driving over that speed, so when you pass someone in the slower lane, you must only feel safe doing 2 MPH faster than them. Which would take more than a minute to pass, allowing for safe clearances you probably need. And you think the cars piled up behind you are speed freaks. You're are probably one of those drivers that don't drive over 50 whenever a cop is in sight. (Since you are so stubborn about your right to the fast lane, I feel compelled to group you with the other nuts on the road.) If you really think about it (maybe your emotions are stronger than your brain), you could drive in the slower lanes until you need to pass, and accelerate around them (read - hit the gas, change lanes, pass, change back, let off gas) when the fast lane is clear. If the fast lane isn't clear, and several cars are ahead of you in the slower lane, you have two choices; (a) Accept the slower speed until traffic dies down, or (b) Accept the fact that you will have to drive at the higher speed until the slower lane is clear. Is that such a tough decision to cope with? If it is, you apparently are out to piss people off instead of helping them out. This business about driving slow/flashing off-road lights is ridiculous. I've heard of people actually getting killed because one person gets mad enough to shoot the other. Both of you should have a little more patience. Sometimes it takes alot, I know. I like the fast lane myself, and hate it when a slow car is in front of me. When they are attempting to pass another car (seems to be a big, or difficult, event for some drivers), I can wait. It's when they stay in the fast lane after the pass, or when no other cars are in the slow lane in the first place; that's when I feel like blowing them off. So I pass them at 80 hoping they get the picture. Some do, some don't. Oh well, another one of life's BIG problems, right. Mark Hamilton Denver, CO