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And the No. 1 thing that drives motorists mad ...
The Daily Bulletin ^
| 7/17/2006
| Michelle Groh-Gordy, DriveTime
Posted on 07/17/2006 8:41:13 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
i HOPE there are no other qualities you share with SHRILLERY Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Stalin . . . de Sade!
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:12:13 AM PDT
by
Quix
(PRAY AND WORK WHILE THERE'S DAY! ManI y very dark nights are looming. Thankfully, God is still God!)
To: absolootezer0
A woman rearended us at a stoplight once because she didn't notice traffic had stopped - she was using her rearview mirror to adjust a contact lens! Why she didn't gouge her own eye out on impact, I don't know.
To: Individual Rights in NJ
I used to shave while driving when I had a 65 mile one way commute............
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:12:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
Comment #164 Removed by Moderator
To: Skooz
Perhaps you'd care to elaborate on the usefulness of a single speed limit for both the 16 year old pick up truck on its original brakes and 75,000 miles on the tires and a new Camry with anti-lock brakes, traction control and new tires? Maybe we should all go 25 mph. That would surely save lives, right?
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:12:43 AM PDT
by
GreenAccord
(Amnesty for speeders! Driving the speed Americans won't go.)
To: kAcknor
You are an unsafe driver. Because I obey traffic laws, I am unsafe? Uh huh.
If traffic conditions are such that people are moving faster than the limit,
Thereby, breaking the law
you, by insisting on driving at a slower speed while in the left lanes, are a traffic hazard.
I never insist on driving at a slower speed in the left lanes. Never said I did.
Not talking law or legality.
Because you can't, in this case.
Just safety. By sitting there blocking others, you force them into unneeded lane changes and passing maneuvers, thus increasing the risk of going down the road.
Again, I never said that I sit and block the left lane, thereby forcing speeders who willfully endanger the lives of others to change lanes.
When doing the speed limit, I stay in the right lane.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:13:31 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Tokra
Here in DC I've developed the habit of staying a little farther away from the car ahead of me in front of a stop light than I used to. All to often, they are turning left, and don't signal, except perhaps to note the turn for history.
With extra space, I can often turn around them, traffic permitting, and not lose a light cycle.
To: metmom
I think they do that because you trying to pass them woke them up, they looked at their speedometer and said, "Oh my, I'm going too slow!"
susie
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:13:44 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Smogger
2. If you've got to drive slow, you better know where to go. Those who putz in the fast lane ranked as the second-biggest driving annoyance. Okay, this maybe true--but the converse is as well.
I'm one of those jerks who drives the speed limit, mostly. I tend to keep to the slower lanes. What peeves me off the most are self-righteous jerks who tail gait you in the slow lane when you're still going about five miles over the posted limit.
So even if I'm going 60 in a 55 mile lane, and the passing lanes are free, GUARANTEED, there's some jerk-wad gunning behind me (often in one of those crappy little rice mobiles). Do they pass me? Heck no.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:14:07 AM PDT
by
RepoGirl
("Bobby, if you weren't my son... I'd hug you...")
To: Individual Rights in NJ; Skooz
It's worth noting that a speed limit is basically what is called a "statutory regulation" as opposed to an "operational regulation." Most limited-access highways are designed for vehicles to safely travel at speeds in excess of 75 mph under wet conditions, so speed limit statutes are really nothing more than a mechanism for generating revenue.
Motor vehicle laws that require motorists to keep to the right, on the other hand, are intended specifically to enhance the safe operation of the roadway.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:14:07 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: kevkrom
What's a "HOV" lane?........Humongous Oversized Vehicle?........
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:14:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Individual Rights in NJ
And just how many anger management classes have they made you attend? ;)
To: Skooz
Yes, absolutely, it is much safer to drive 75mph than the posted 65mph, for example, on I-95. Speed limits are what they are because the socialists thought they could force gas conservation on us.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:14:17 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Famous last words: "what does Ibtz mean?")
To: Individual Rights in NJ
Yes you are right. He is a very unsafe driver and each of his comments shows it more. Really? Because I obey traffic safety laws?
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:14:25 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
Comment #175 Removed by Moderator
To: Individual Rights in NJ
The roads primary funtion is not to be a safe place for your children and infants to play. You are an unsafe driver.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:15:13 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Red Badger
After having been nearly sideswiped by a teen on a cellphone, I am for an all out ban on talking on cellphones while driving. This example is precisely why cell phone bans are NOT a good idea. You wouldn't have felt any better if you were nearly sideswiped by a teen who wasn't talking on a cell phone, would you?
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:15:42 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Kaylee Frye
Ahh, but correlation doesn't imply causation. I'm willing to bet the dingbat just drives bad period. And I'd like folks to explain to me how talking on the cell phone is so incredibly different than eating or chatting with a friend (in the car) or listening intently to the radio and changing the stations.I'm sure she's a bad driver but cell phones just make bad drivers worse. I looked her right in the eye (we were that close) and she was clearly completely absorbed in her phone call and totally unaware of her surroundings. I was an agnostic on the cell phone issue until that happened to me. Now, I've joined the side of big government and limiting freedom (in this anyway).
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:15:43 AM PDT
by
jalisco555
("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
To: GreenAccord
No. Just go the speed limit. That's all. Not complicated at all.
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posted on
07/17/2006 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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