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From: mth@drutx.UUCP (Hamilton)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors and Legality
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 12:50:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 12:50:59 1984
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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