| Re: Coping With The New CAFÉ Standards OR Defying the Laws of Physics [message #793319] |
Wed, 06 February 2008 12:57 |
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> V-for-Vendicar <Justice [at] ExecuteTheBushTraitor.com> wrote:
>> "Alan Baker" <alangbaker [at] telus.net> wrote
>> > The main contributing factor in fatalities is driver error.
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>> In my area, about 90% of all drivers travel between 8 to Mph over the
>> speed
>> limit, and about 50% of them maintain a stopping distance between cars of
>> 20
>> feet or less at 60 Mph.
"Robert Spedding" <rspedding929 [at] gmail.com> wrote
> That's entirely insufficient. They should allow at least 2 seconds time
> (count 2 seconds between the vehicle in front using a land mark), and that
> is
> modest. 20 feet at 60 Mph is not even close. There is no time to react.
Correct. Yet 50% knowingly maintain unsafe stopping distances and are
knowingly speeding at the same time.
>> 50% of the time unsignaled lane changes are made when cornering at an
>> intersection, and 10% of lane changes are unsignaled.
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> 90% of lane changes being signaled is good.
100% is good. 90% is sloth.
>> But that's just my experience after 2 months of driving.
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>> In such an environment, I would hardly call an accident "driver error",
>> any
>> more than I would call someone who dies in a fist fight "boxer error".
"Robert Spedding" <rspedding929 [at] gmail.com> wrote
> No, those are "driver errors".
Nope. They are planned behaviour. And planned behaviour is never an
error.
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