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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: "farce and American autobahns?!?!"
Message-ID: <320@intelca.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 16:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 16:09:39 1984
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Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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I, too, am skeptical of numbers showing Autobahn death rates tied to
high (non-existant) speed limits...last time I was over there the radio
in the car I was riding in "went off" (it seems there is some kind of
announcement system setup where you turn your radio on, but it remains
muted until a special broadcast signal comes over, whereupon it comes
to life and you can listen to whatever important announcement is floating
by).  Anyway, this happened, and the announcer said there was a "ghost driver"
on one of the autobahns...A ghost driver is one driving on the wrong side
of the freeway.  Apparently they are pretty commonplace, and are regularly
tracked on the radio.  One can imagine what that does to accident rates......
This could also have something to do with higher surface street accident
rates, since it is much easier to get confused (or at least, I thought
so) as to which side to drive on on a surface street then on a freeway
with arrows and lines, etc.
-- 
Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,idi,omsvax}!intelca!kds
---the above views are personal.  They may not represent those of Intel.