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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2008Today's nominee for the Aunt Judy Award
A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: http://www.drive55.org/ Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic of the 1970s and 1980s. > A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: > http://www.drive55.org/ > > Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic > of the 1970s and 1980s. How about the recent problems of people deliberately causing a rolling-roadblock at the NMSL speed restriction? Traffic was quickly jammed and the roadways were closed. These demonstrations should show why not to drive so slowly while also blocking the passing lanes. When the passing lanes are open, slow traffic in the right lane is rarely a problem. I find it odd that the drivers who claim that they're only "doing the speed limit" are also the same drivers who fail to obey the actual speed restrictions. They're completely oblivious to the traffic that is swerving around them, and keep "driving 55" even when the speed restriction is signed lower, such as through a construction zone and a lane closure. I've also seen some drivers that seem to be staring at their speedometers while they drive, and some were yapping on the mobile at the same time. Avoiding these scary drivers is one reason why I like buses and trains. >A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: >http://www.drive55.org/ > >Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic >of the 1970s and 1980s. Forget? No.. that's what they want. They are the same people who think that their way is morally superior. They view the 70s and 80s as their empowered decade when they got to start blocking everyone else's progress on the road. They are control freaks. On Apr 21, 12:00 am, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote: > In article <2bf26922-f8ea-4537-ab49-38147a07f...@1g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, MLOM wrote: > >A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > They are control freaks. Scratch one industrial model irony meter. ----- - gpsman > A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL:http://www.drive55.org/ > > Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic > of the 1970s and 1980s. Do you remember the thousands of lives saved every year by the 55? Anyway, lots of people want the 55 brought back. You don't hear about them because the auto industry makes a fortune off car crashes and pays the media to censor these groups. "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <betaxxx@earthlink.net> wrote in news:beb562e7-39f8-4038-be8c-b46ccc35ba12 @w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com: >> A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL:http://www.drive55.org/ >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > them because the auto industry makes a fortune off car crashes and > pays the media to censor these groups. A lot of people think the moon landings were fake, aliens have visited Earth, and magnetic bracelet cure disease. But it's best not to give the wack jobs any credibility by pretending they might be sane. Note, death rate has declined since the 55 mph limit was removed. >A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: >http://www.drive55.org/ > >Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic >of the 1970s and 1980s. Apparently they have forgotten that 55 was tried once, was almost universally rejected and finally sent to the trash bin of history in the '80's as the utter failure that it was.... -- "The pee trough is rude, folks." --Sam Kinison > Apparently they have forgotten that 55 was tried once, was almost > universally rejected and finally sent to the trash bin of history in > the '80's as the utter failure that it was.... Actually, it wasn't history until 1995. Even now, many states cling to it (in the form of SMSLs). > A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: > http://www.drive55.org/ > > Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic > of the 1970s and 1980s. Get rid of speed limits everywhere. Train people how to drive, rather than how to pass a driving test. Then drivers can make their own educated decision about how fast is best for the conditions and for their situation. Whether it be 10mph in a commercial area or on a residential street with kids about, 80-90mph to keep up with the flow of traffic on a busy interstate in clear conditions, or 55mph on a quieter stretch of interstate/country road to maximise fuel economy. >> A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: >> http://www.drive55.org/ [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > decision about how fast is best for the conditions and for their > situation. I've often said that speedometers should be BANNED from automobiles. My reason is, the speedometer has nothing at all to do with driving. And nobody can refute that last sentence WITHOUT referring to other things that ALSO have NOTHING to do with driving! Do we want people driving, or staring at a speedometer? Simply stated, if you can't tell that your speed is reasonable and safe without looking at a speedometer, you should not be driving at all. -Dave >> A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: >> http://www.drive55.org/ [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >interstate in clear conditions, or 55mph on a quieter stretch of >interstate/country road to maximise fuel economy. But then how will governments get revenue and be able to define us all as law breakers or suspicious persons ? >> A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL: >> http://www.drive55.org/ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Get rid of speed limits everywhere. Train people how to drive, The problem is that "driving" to the level of not having accidents is and always has been _waaaaaay_ beyond human capability. When we get to the point where we can build some really smart robots that can drive, there will always be 40,000 or so people killed on the roads every year in the US. Of course the other solution is to shut down the highways completely and invent some other form of transportation that, of course, would also have to run on some kind of automated control. > A group pushing for the return of the 55mph NMSL:http://www.drive55.org/ > > Apparently the group has fogotten about the highway hypnosis epidemic > of the 1970s and 1980s. Can we change the subject please? Discussing the article is OK (although I'm guessing probably good for a chuckle and/or facepalm) but "Aunt Judy Award" to me seems to go against the spirit of OSTT. I'd really like to give it a try for a couple weeks and see if it makes a difference. Plus making fun of Joan Claybrook is always well deserved. nate "It takes longer to get places. But you know what? It doesn’t take that much longer. Every time the needle creeps up to 60 I remember polar bears and slow down. It makes me feel good." I just threw up in my mouth a little. >"It takes longer to get places. But you know what? It doesn=92t take >that much longer. Every time the needle creeps up to 60 I remember >polar bears and slow down. It makes me feel good." > >I just threw up in my mouth a little. It's amazing how easily the ignorant masses are scamed isn't it. That one fell for every layer of the scam. |
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