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The dangers of DRLs 4656
1. One can't see the radio-odo-trip computer-compbutt displays, etc. etc. when those displays dim for that 1-2...

Another jurisdiction that likes the "zipper" 4657
If you look carefully on the aerial photo, there is a residential street that follows the perimeter of the highway ramp. There are actually two cars driving on it in the photo. This is...

Another jurisdiction that likes the "zipper" 4658
cars can onto shows a at freeway be would glove Actually, there are several circles in DC that aren't...

Rage" wreck devastates
Rage" wreck devastates By Felisa Cardona Denver Post Staff Writer DenverPost.com A mother of three was brain-dead and her children injured after the driver of another vehicle bumped their...

fighting a ticket for running a stop sign 4660
I'd suggest calling the Clerk of Court and asking if you can speak to the DA before the trial and explain your case...

fighting a ticket for running a stop sign 4661
Yes. The Toyota did the best job of protecting the occupants of the vehicle. In a collision like you described, the most serious injuries are...

U.S. drivers feel less safe on the road
That is surprising. The way the question is worded, I would think that the percentage would be...

Wannabe Cops 4663
There are people who enjoy that. I suspect that if they do get pulled over, they might find out that real cops don't always...

Wannabe Cops 4664
Laura Bush liquidateed her boy friend As opposed to your typical dimocrat, like yourself, hanging...

rightonred stress 4665
Hopefully you are not serious. How many people are on such tight schedules that waiting an extra 20 seconds at a light is going to ruin their life? Ramming someone at a...

rightonred stress 4666
Any light that doesn't change in less than 3 minutes with no opposing traffic needs to be retimed. I have been honked at while sitting at a light waiting to turn right...

rightonred stress 4667
C. E. White" Two traffic lanes and a left-turn lane with signal in all four directions. It's safe to...

rightonred stress 4668
small (reposting this reply with the original poster's message included this time) In the province of Ontario, in Canada, most cities have right on red turning, and if you were at the head of...

rightonred stress 4669
In the province of Ontario, in Canada, most cities have right on red turning, and if you were at...

The increasing stress of driving
I'm very frustrated by the number of driving days that require the use of rapid deceleration, evasive action, and rapid acceleration...

The increasing stress of driving
Other than leaving hours earlier to go anywhere and taking You could do what I did, and move closer to work. I used to drive 30-45 minutes of hair raising, adrenaline...

butthole de jour
this just happened not 10 minutes ago and I am peeED! I was coming home and getting off at my exit from the freeway... this exit is...

butthole de jour 4673
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:24:26 -0500, DTJ If someone pulls in in front of you and cuts you...

butthole de jour 4674
Actually with what happened with the torqueless wonder car, I found that cops and insurance companies do expect you to violate the laws of physics to avoid a collision. Failure to violate the...

Sloth Kills Two More
I've driven CA-152.Part of it is a narrow, twisty mountain road with no pbutting zones (although...

Sloth Kills Two More 4676
breath. cars appropriate Not necessarily. I have actually done this and it works most of the time. Say the slow car is doing 50 in a 60...

Sloth Kills Two More 4677
No where I have I seen any evidence that there was a "sloth" driver involved at all - unless your definition of a sloth driver is any driver who is going slower than the driver behind...

Sloth Kills Two More 4678
By reading between the lines, of course. As with most news reports of vehicle collisions, there is not enough information presented to draw an accurate conclusion. However, experience tells us that the liberal media...

Sloth Kills Two More 4679
Must be a similiar thing to how bicycle baneities are reported. They go something like this: A man was riding a bicycle when he was hit and run over...

Roads a.k.a. The Tragedy of the Commons 4680
That's an easy one. Your government has squandered the money they are collecting based on automobiles on other projects. Rather than admit this, they just play on the publics desire for better roads to add...

Roads a.k.a. The Tragedy of the Commons 4681
Duh, Roads are paid for my gasoline taxes. And at least in my state, so is the State Police. In fact, as far as I can determine a significant portion of road...

Roads a.k.a. The Tragedy of the Commons 4682
but I am amazed that you claim your are right when your own county's budget says you are wrong. Read it. Clearly Orange County is collecting more "car related" revenue than...

Sudden slow downs. Why
Not necessarily. The radar is pretty fast, but it's being operated by a human being (who probably has slower reflexes than YOU do) and even...

Yet another DUH! 4684
Yeah, OK... its an activity that's traceable thru cell phone records. Its just one type of distracting activity. What about talking to someone in the car? Is that more or less distracting...

Yet another DUH! 4685
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:21:13 +0000, Dave Head Unfortunately it is far more distracting than most other activities, resulting in an extreme increase (300%) in risk. Less. The main reason being that...

Yet another DUH! 4686
No, I think we only really have numbers on the cell phone being 300% more risky - and not that changing CD's or talking to pbuttengers or turning...

Yet another DUH! 4687
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:14:18 +0000, Dave Head No driver, who is even halfway sane, turns around to swat the kid in the back seat. If you really are...

Yet another DUH! 4688
There's lotsa lunatics behind the wheel, and they actually do that. Not my kids - talking about other people. I don't. But...

Yet another DUH! 4689
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:46:40 +0000, Dave Head And the fact that other people do stupid things relates to your 'right' of doing something exquisitely stupid...

Yet another DUH! 4690
How do you know? That's not been my experience. Its obvious. The only thing for which...

Yet another DUH! 4691
What about making driving safer? Even if a ban does not get enacted,people may realized how much a distraction CP...

Yet another DUH! 4692
There is that, I suppose. But I think the study was really politically motivated for the purpose I stated. Yeah, but that statistic...

Yet another DUH! 4693
Sounds like paranoia. What basis do you have for the IIHS to desire to ban CPs? (other that the fact it...

Yet another DUH! 4694
Y'know, everytime this topic comes up, SOMEONE mentions talking to pbuttengers in the car. This point has been disproven many times, but the short version is, the cell phone conversation is more distracting than...

Yet another DUH! 4695
You have any hard data on that? I mean, the only distraction I can remember that caused me some problem was from talking to someone in the car, not on...

Illinois becoming more communist as we speak
As someone who has attempted to obey IL construction zone speed limits, DTJ there is right, it's very dangerous to...

Trolling for line cutters
A two lane road, the right through lane is backed up at the light about 1-2 mile. The left lane...

Trolling for line cutters
Doug Warner I don't get it either. here's where I usually see it: (stolen from another...

The Right of Locomotion
We have the Right of Locomotion. More spicifically, We have the Right of Locomotion Ordinarly used...

Curious about youse guys' opinions
I encountered a driver who probably thinks like you today galt. I was riding my bicycle at 30mph in...

Amazing Who You Run Into on the Street
I happened to catch this little drama as I was boarding the Metrolink shuttle bus this evening: This collision literally happened right in front of me...

Three states raise speed limits, up to 80 mph Texas 4702
The evidence indeed was "black and white". But that wasn't the issue that the court ruled on. The law they were considering had wording of "reasonable and prudent". The...

Three states raise speed limits, up to 80 mph Texas 4703
Did you catch the part where even the cop who wrote the ticket testified FOR the defendant? I don't doubt some judge had a problem with the "85 miles per hour" part. That just goes...

Ya gotta love California "drivers" 4704
Californians will drive with their hood ornament up the next guy's trailer hitch at freeway speeds...

Ya gotta love California "drivers" 4705
John S. Here's the chain of causation that leads to this situation. 1. California law...

Ya gotta love California "drivers" 4706
Can you cite the law that says this? I don't know about California, but in NC there are laws that cover people making...

Near 2 crashes on 2 consecutive days
I ended up spending close to 3 hours combined stuck on the 2 interstates while the cops were doing their thing. Both crashes involved...

Fireworks, Kids, and the Angry Driver
This story appeared in today's NY Times-AP News online. It's not the first time drivers have been threatened by fireworks shot by...

The state of state speed limits Distribution: usa
With three states raising speed limits this year I decided to make a map of where America stands: The map shows the highest speeds posted in the state; in the case...

Why I set out cones, barricades, and three spotters when parking my car in my
I have found that if I stop on the street, set up orange cones at one...

Sloth Coaster Gets His ComeUppance 4714
Several years ago, I had a parking spot buttigned at work with my name clearly marked in a...

Sloth Coaster Gets His ComeUppance 4715
Well you are including additional information not in your original post. I thought you were totally against pbutting on the right? And slowing down to catch the light while you are still rolling can increase...

SUV Spontaneously Flips Over Human Dead, But Dogs Survive 4716
Cartlon Shew did trees fall and knock down the overhead power lines? .... that's where the talk about for 10...

SUV Spontaneously Flips Over Human Dead, But Dogs Survive 4717
Jim Ledford It's cheaper to buy a bicycle and go out riding past lots of road frontage. At...

FAQ without answers 4718
The question list is obviously made up by whomever was "answering" them. -Where are the tough questions? I'm sure the following QUESTIONS are ASKED -FREQUENTLY, but are only answered by evasion and insults. - -1 You...

Ingnorant Christer FAQ answered
Universal Soldier American atheists reflect the political spectrum of America. Most are moderate, with some on either end. Since the religious right wing have taken control...

FAQ without answers 4720
Universal Soldier them. ASKED Because we all HATE AMERICA! We know in our hearts that only the...

FAQ without answers 4721
Hello, I am an atheist that stands a little to the right. Now what else would you like to know, ( This is buttuming you are not the obvious troll that you are...

FAQ without answers 4722
Universal Soldier Not true, IME Define "atheist country." By definition, the US is not a religious...

another question
Can one ne a GBLT Christian? I should begin by explaining my motive, which many people question. You could rightly question my motive...

Pope speaks out against the remnants of totalitarianism: homoloveuals, endists and commie atheists
By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Homoloveual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says...

about antibush car stickers 4725
In the interest of edification only and the education of those who might live in Republican states, here's a list...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4727
I HAD to respond to this one! First, let's buttUME that OPEC is being "open" about their pumping capacities (which I never believed they are), Saudi Arabia has a 500,000 barrel...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW
How about you point me to the "rules" that explain how to "quote properly" and which side of the quoted text is appropriate...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4729
If you raise CAFE enough, SUV's will become pointless. People who really need to haul stuff will fork over the additional money for one...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4730
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:12:04 -0500, "Magnulus" This is *exactly* the thinking that got us SUVs. Remember, SUVs were a very small part of the road fleet...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4731
On 18 Mar 2005 21:16:49 -0800, "Laura Bush liquidateed her boy friend" find a job... -- Did Zepp Jamieson really think he was going to get away with posting as "Greywolf the Wanderer" long...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4732
Nope..he makes a KILLING selling beer and cigarettes...he moves about 50 cases of beer a day (doesn't hurt he also...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4733
It's about 15-20 cents more per gallon here in Florida. And Florida has a high diesel tax, too. OTOH, I have friends who...

Bushamerica $3 gas is here NOW 4734
I suppose "pre-emptive action" means something different when a democrat says it. Ahh such is the US political landscape where the people of one side see their people as angels and those of the...



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