DYM wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:11:28 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
> > wrote:
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>
>>On 29 Jan 2005 19:06:15 -0800, wrote:
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>>>yes you can drive fast and still be safe, but the odds are against you
>>>and it depends on how you defined safe? I have driven coast to coast
>>>several times and have seen my fair share of junk in the middle of the
>>>interstate, like deer, bicycles, furniture, blow out semi tires. I
>>>probably would not be alive today if I was driving "fast" when I saw
>>>them too late! For anyone who logs in hundreds of thousand of miles,
>>>driving at a controllable speed is the way to survive.
>>
>>I was driving at 120MPH the other day, and I had no problem remaining
>>in control. I might have tried going even faster, but the engine
>>wasn't fully broken in yet.
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>
> And when you hit me in the rear (cause I always keep to the safe &
> legal Speed limit), if you survive, who will be charged with the
> collison.
>
> DYM
>

If you would not block the "faster" lanes, he would not hit you in the
rear. Even better, if, like in Germany, you see him approaching at a
much faster speed and you yield to him, he will not hit you in the rear.