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For all of those posters who complain about selective enforcement of traffic laws, and continually complain that "others" are passing on the right, or driving erratically. The GPS system is accurate enough to measure speed to one tenth of a mile per hour, and has more than enough horizontal resolution to plot the ground track of a vehicle to about one foot laterally. Would you all agree to have an onboard data recorder built into your car(and everyone elses), that would in a non discriminatory fashion,show where you were driving, how fast you were going,who you passed,what lane they were in,what lane you were in, what the legally posted limit was at the time? I probably should shut my PC off while you all send me hate mail, but I think that I have made my point.
Everyone seems to be complaining about someone in the left lane, and keeps describing it as the "passing" lane, but seems to selectively ignore the fact that it is only the passing lane while you are obeying the speed limit. beyond that, why complain about the person going the speed limit in that lane if your ressoning behind it is that you were planning on going faster? Is that persons adherence to the law a violation of your "rights"?
I do not think so. I ,like many others, will go faster tahn a posted limit when there is basically no one else out there to get in the way,and in those conditions, would not find myself continually flashing others aside just to get by. Chances are if you are doing the same as I, not many other drivers are really in your way in the first place. On the other hand, if you are on a three lane divided interstate with essentially all three lanes used by the traffic, why ashould someone have to move over to the right just so you can speed? I know that in those conditions, when the volume of traffic is fairly heavy, and all lanes are full, you might burn out your high beam relay trying to get me to congest the two right lanes more just so you can go faster.
Back to my original premise. On board data recorders are already in your car in some fashion, and one like I described could easily become apart of the automotive landscape if people who insist on driving agressively in heavy traffic keep doing it.
Before you fire off your angry replys,think about it just a little. If pilots flew planes like many drivers operate their cars, most of us who fly would be dead right now. Adherance to as many of the driving laws as possible is really not such a bad thing, and for those who keep harping on thier "right" to drive as they please,think about that one again. There is absolutely no right to drive anywhere, at least not here in the USA.
OK,you can start the anrgy replys now( if you really think that what I said was incorrect).
posted by 24.128.2...
, Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:24:01
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