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Simon Brooke
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in message <[email protected]>, Phil Clarke
('[email protected]') wrote:
> ian henden wrote:
>
>> ... our pathetic, patronisingly low 70 mph limit, set in
>> the days when half the cars on the road had cable brakes
> > and carthorse spring suspension.
>
> and the drivers had the same brain & reactions we still have
A brain evolved over millions of years for controlling a mass weighing
about 80Kg and travelling at at most twenty miles an hour. It's small
surprise that it doesn't work so well controlling forces 160 times that
magnitude.
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[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
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('[email protected]') wrote:
> ian henden wrote:
>
>> ... our pathetic, patronisingly low 70 mph limit, set in
>> the days when half the cars on the road had cable brakes
> > and carthorse spring suspension.
>
> and the drivers had the same brain & reactions we still have
A brain evolved over millions of years for controlling a mass weighing
about 80Kg and travelling at at most twenty miles an hour. It's small
surprise that it doesn't work so well controlling forces 160 times that
magnitude.
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
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Version: 3.1
GP/CS s++: a+ C+++ ULBVCS*++++$ L+++ P--- E+>++ W+++ N++ K w--(---)
M- !d- PS++ PE-- Y+ PGP !t 5? X+ !R b++ !DI D G- e++ h*(-) r++ y+++
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