Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cuuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!cuuxb!cuuxc!cuuxa!frye From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Radar detectors Message-ID: <295@cuuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 19:52:09 EDT Article-I.D.: cuuxa.295 Posted: Fri Aug 16 19:52:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:55:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il. Lines: 58 In responce to CONWAY's posting, I know people get splattered all over the place in auto accidents. Reducing the speed limit did not reduce the number of accidents, watchin' for ol' Smokey did. That would have worked if more bears had been out inforcing the 70 mile per hour limit. I think a lot of people know the reason the speed limit was lowered. The clowns just did it to be pricks. The cars running the roads at the time did not save gas running at 55 instead of 70. They were designed to run good in a specified torque band (spectrum of engine rpm) and that produced a speed of about 65-70 mph. That's just the way that old road iron was built in those days. Now we have to suffer with little shitbox cars that we have to put on instead of get in. They may do better at 55 but older cars don't. I think to save lives, maybe there ought to be a real drivers' test in- stead of the jokes people go through to get a liscence. Teach them to drive and not how to submit to government bullshit. As far as using a radar detector to detect speed traps, if you don't have one of those you can get a CB radio. Most of the drivers out there will tell you where Smokey is collectin' them green stamps. As far as taking my time goes, if I had the time I coulda walked from point a to point b. I got in the damned car to drive it, not to watch it rust away in 55 mph traffic. I coulda left it sit and rust in the apartment parking lot, I didn't have to park it on the highway to rust. All this crap is just the polititians' trying to protect me from myself. It makes me very angry. You keep protecting people and they become dependant on it. They forget how to protect themselves. I don't see how anyone can call that good. Whew, I feel better. Not flaming you personally CONWAY. I just do not like polititians. We let people run this country who have no idea what us real people gotta put up with. They keep trying to take the constitution and its bill of rights apart and eventually they'll make it. The right to unrestricted travel is infringe a lot now-a-days. That ammendment didn't include or exclude motor vehicles. I must take it that the folks who wrote it purposely left out the means by which a person could get the job done. I conclude, accordingly, that it is my right to operate a motor or steam or wind (whatever) powered vehicle. Of course, if someone kills someone with anything, be it car, gun, jugheaded horse, a half of a paving brick, just lock his ass up and either get rid of him or keep him locked up. That is, unless it was a justified killing. On the lighter side, has anyone heard of anyone (lately that is) running over anybody with an ol' broomtailed hay burner? Damn, Frye again! Who does he think he is? Anyhow?