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Alan Baker
Guest
In article <[email protected]>,
Frank Krygowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan Baker wrote:
>
> >
> > What prevents the driver from having driven the road before and
> > *knowing* there are no hills curves or blindspots?
>
> Ask Nate, Alan. Ask him how many minutes before he had gone down the
> road to check it for hills, curves, blind spots - and tree branches,
> pedestrians, drivers backing out of driveways, and other road hazards.
Ask him what? How many hills, curves and blind spots suddenly appeared
in the road?
As has already been pointed out, you can see much farther down the road
than your utterly ludicrous figure of 160 feet, drivers backing out of
driveways have reflectors and can be seen even further.
>
> Again: people who defend night driving at 75+ mph on rural two-lane
> roads lack the judgement to comment on mitigating neighborhood speeding.
People who condemn it without knowing the full circumstances just look
stupid.
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
Frank Krygowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan Baker wrote:
>
> >
> > What prevents the driver from having driven the road before and
> > *knowing* there are no hills curves or blindspots?
>
> Ask Nate, Alan. Ask him how many minutes before he had gone down the
> road to check it for hills, curves, blind spots - and tree branches,
> pedestrians, drivers backing out of driveways, and other road hazards.
Ask him what? How many hills, curves and blind spots suddenly appeared
in the road?
As has already been pointed out, you can see much farther down the road
than your utterly ludicrous figure of 160 feet, drivers backing out of
driveways have reflectors and can be seen even further.
>
> Again: people who defend night driving at 75+ mph on rural two-lane
> roads lack the judgement to comment on mitigating neighborhood speeding.
People who condemn it without knowing the full circumstances just look
stupid.
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."