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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American v. Foreign Cars
Message-ID: <759@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 19:15:24 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.759
Posted: Mon Nov  5 19:15:24 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 19:42:27 EST
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Reply-To: mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <682@oliven.UUCP> hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) writes:

> The biggest threat to the safety of my VW was the morons in other small
> cars who were constantly pulling in front of me.  In thirty miles a day of
> rush hour driving, there would typicly be three or four events requiring
> action on my part (usually braking, but also swerving, etc.) to avoid
> damage to my car and/or self.  These were typicly small cars; vary rarely
> the boats.  In the two months that I've been driving my Impala, this has
> happened four (4) times, plus a couple of times requiring mild
> decelleration.  For some reason, I get the idea that they really were
> looking.  A couple of tons of steel seems to put the fear of God (and
> Chevy :-) into men.

Three observations:

(1)  Maybe the reason more "boats" don't pull in front of you is because
     most of them can't maneuver that quickly.

(2)  In the same vein, the lane-changers may be avoiding you because they
     doubt you can maneuver around THEM.

(3)  Around here (D.C. area) we are having an epidemic of truck accidents
     (to the point where trucks are being restricted to the right hand
     lanes in some areas).  The cause of most of the accidents?  You guessed
     it: cutting people off while changing lanes.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe