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To: GregoryFul; Lester Moore
That download process of whereabouts can be via a tollway transponder called I-Pass in IL. Our socialist Gov bestowed it upon us in such a manner that it became economically feasible - he doubled the tollway fees if you failed to use it.
149 posted on 10/09/2005 10:18:34 PM PDT by endthematrix (Those who despise freedom and progress have condemned themselves to isolation, decline, and collapse)
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To: endthematrix
Yep, that would work.

However, we've got do draw the line somewhere here - the technology is available to turn us all into perpetual criminals with death by a thousand cuts. The traffic laws are poorly designed and manipulated by many forces that have nothing to do with traffic safety. If most drivers were not keen on adapting to the chaotic road designs and traffic rules we would not be able to survive them.

The road I live on has a 25 mph speed limit on a 3 mile section where my house is, and a 35 mph limit further up. It is the same width, same density of houses, somewhat more curvy and hilly - it does not make sense. And if one observes the 25 mph speed limit, angry drivers take opportunities to veer around you - which is not safe at all.

Superhighways were designed for 70 mph plus, and in the 60's and 70's speed limits were 65-75 mph on these roads. But in the 70's Congress decided that we as a nation could save gas if cars traveled at 55 - so the 55 mph speed limit was imposed on the nations highways. Absolutely no consideration was given for the time value of the people being conveyed by those highways.

Then we get the know-it-all mutton heads declaring that the 55 mph speed limit was saving lives on the highways, because highway death tolls came down - of course they ignored the fact that most people pay no attention to the 55 mph limit unless a patrol car is in the vicinity - and then you get a nasty traffic snarl.

I believe that many traffic accidents are a result of poor road engineering, and can be remedied by attending to road design. Around here, I am aware of where there are high frequencies of accidents, and am quite careful while maneuvering through those spots.

For twenty years, we've had weekly crashes at one poorly controlled intersection between a highway exit (typically backed up to overflowing onto the highway during rush hour) onto a four lane overpass on a secondary route. The crashes are caused by lack of visibility, lack of traffic signals, and driver impatience and aggravation. Why aren't signals installed? I guess it is easier to blame crashes on the driver who is trying to negotiate the idiotic chaos created by the "authorities". It is clear to any thoughtful person who is familiar with the spot what the problem is. I expect that the people who crash there are unfamiliar with the spot.

So, we've got lots of design problems in our roads and traffic laws. And they will continue to be ignored by the "people in charge". (I've seen right turn on red signs qualified by multiple associated signs describing what days of the week and what times of the day it is prohibited - takes one almost as much time to read the signs as it does for the light to change: clearly we have idiots in charge).

Anyway, to be forced to comply with every idiotic nuance of the traffic laws by technology that records every infraction will cause massive, bloody revolt (I hope, I would not want to live in such tyranny).

154 posted on 10/09/2005 11:21:37 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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