Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site yeti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!yeti!leiby From: leiby@yeti.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Fast driving Message-ID: <135@yeti.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 18:03:49 EST Article-I.D.: yeti.135 Posted: Mon Jan 30 18:03:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 01:41:10 EST References: <674@eisx.UUCP> Organization: Masscomp, Littleton, MA Lines: 27 ...!eisx!bls (Bernard Smith) sez (in part): > In the fast driving articles, the proponents of speed based on mechanical > and response-time criteria are operating on at least two false assumptions: > (1): A driver is capable of determining his own ability. Having functioned > for a number of years as a member of a rescue squad, this is simply not > true. The fantastically skilled and responsive drivers that I have picked > up in a bucket have convinced me of that. > (2): The slower drivers are over-concerned with protecting the life of > those who are driving faster.... FLAME ON! Your style of argument is ludicrous. Just because you've scraped up a lot of dead meat, I fail to see how that qualifies you to sit in judgement on the driving skills of the general populace. Certainly I have more data concerning my own driving abilities than you do! I also wonder how you manage to read the minds of slower drivers to discover their benevolent intent. Some trick. (And now, watch as I go off the deep end in a blaze of glory... :-) But no, wait! I see the light!!! Clearly you are much more qualified to run my life than I am! I give in! 2 + 2 = 5 (remember your Orwell?)! ...God, I love net news (not to mention Big Brother)...