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From: leiby@yeti.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fast driving
Message-ID: <135@yeti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 18:03:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 18:03:49 1984
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Organization: Masscomp, Littleton, MA
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...!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?)!


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