Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!ems From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (E. Michael Smith) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: left lane hogging Message-ID: <796@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 17:02:05 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.796 Posted: Fri Dec 21 17:02:05 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:49:27 EST References: <1401@druxv.UUCP> <568@voder.UUCP>, <768@oliven.UUCP> <283@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 41 > OK, come on now, let's have no vendettas on the freeway. > So some jerk is tailgating you. Get out of his way with > a minimum of fuss. He'll get his eventually, and it's > DANGEROUS for you to give it to him. > > A friend of mine makes a practice of blocking drivers who > he thinks are acting jerkish. As a result of this he has > been side-swiped once, and has had a side window broken out > by a thrown crowbar. No Thanks! > -- > I have also seen a *LARGE* pickup truck with *VERY* solid bumpers pass on the shoulder, get in front of the 'slow, careful' driver, and hit the brakes *HARD*. Needless to say, the truck 'won'. When it comes to roadwars, auto-arguements, and what have you, I second the motion: No egos on the freeway, please! I was two cars back and still had to take evasive manuvers to aviod the mess. Any one slower than you is a jerk, anyone faster is an *ssh*le, so we are all both of these in other peoples eyes *at any giver moment*. (Smiths first theory of J&A ...) It *IS NOT POSSIBLE* to 'teach someone a lesson' one way or the other. There are a large number of people on either side of the individual. If everyone spends their time trying to convince the other guy that he/she needs to change to be more like them, we will just end up raising the average risk level a great deal and giving each driver mixed signals. If someone is going faster, get out of his way. If someone is going slower, be patient. Iff they haven't noticed you *carefully* consider some *non threatening* communication that you would like to pass. Convention in the US is a *SHORT* blink of the lights, in Germany it is a left turn signal even though there is no lane further left of you. Driving is a cooperative effort, not a confrontational arena... -- E. Michael Smith ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems No one would dare claim these opinions.