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Old 01-21-2010, 11:37 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Not comfortable with that because it is the speed DIFFERENTIAL of vehicles in close proximity to each other that causes the impact problems... and we know how much people love to mindlessly switch lanes. Reminds me of setting two food bowls down in front of multiple cats or dogs; the bowl in front of them is NEVER "the right one" so they swap bowls, sometimes several times, because they think the other guy must have something sooo much better. Yup, that's pretty much it.

Amen on the speed differential... after driving in Germany, and 18wheels here in the USA, it is simply amazing and saddening to see how the common man ignores the "rate of closure" and what it can do to them when they do not pay attention. Even when driving my POV, I note the speed differences that the lamebrainers do in the quest for stoplight to stoplight supremacy... even on the highway with no stoplights...
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