On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:38:06 -0800, Usual Suspect > wrote:
>Nate Nagel wrote:

>>
>> You're an asshole.**Please*cut*up*your*driver's*license*now.
>>
>> you'd actually using exactly the same "logic" as Aunt Judy, just at a
>> higher speed.**That*makes*you*no*better*than*she.**Please ,*either*drive
>> considerately or not at all.**There's*no*place*for*your
>> passive-aggressive driving games on a public road.

>Please, allow me to retort. If the speed limit was enforced and followed by
>the majority of drivers, I'd happily obey it. If you want to drive at 90mph
>on a busy freeway with 65mph limit and the traffic going at 65-75mph, you
>are an asshole, and you deserve every inconveniece I may create for you.

Sorry. But you're the asshole if you can't behave with a reasonable
level of curtesy. Wether the person you've just cut off was doing 70mph
or 90mph really is irrelevent.

The highways were designed to handle traffic at 70mph when cars would wobble
like mad at that speed. These same highways in a modern automobile in good
condition can easily be driven at speeds well over 100mph. The fact that speed
limits are set for a nearly blind inexperienced driver driving a car on three
wheels doesn't change anything. There are of course exceptions like the
horrible highway system in Hartford CT, but most highways have grossly
underset speed limits.

If the speed limits were truly set to a speed where the roads were unsafe,
then more people would respect them. Right now, they are set so that the
most incompetant drivers can feel that they are "really good drivers" driving
at a speed more suitable for a two lane highway that isn't limited access.

If you're not passing somebody, get the **** out of the passing lane.
If you have to pass somebody, try to use the passing lane so that you
don't cut anyone off and then get out of it when you're done.