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Replying to: fintail (May 11, 2009 8:18 am) |
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Replying to: larsb (May 11, 2009 8:34 am) I think we've covered this ground before. An "adaptive" cruise control has some appeal I suppose. It also seems to be showing that the surface streets where it was tested were mostly signed with limits that are too slow.
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Replying to: fintail (May 11, 2009 8:18 am) Yes. What the heck is so hard about coming to a complete stop and pause for at least a split second. Would some people claim that their time is so valuable that they want to justify breaking the law to save a few seconds in their "important" lives? Those who want to cruise through stop signs at 2 or 5 mph should petition US dot and State dots to suggest changing some stop signs to maybe another shape and using words SLOW 2MPH, or SLOW 5MPH.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (May 11, 2009 9:13 am) But I am not surprised to see the mindset in the US, where so many are incapable of dealing with traffic circles or any kind of progressive traffic management. Breaking a law is not an evil in and of itself. Some laws and some lawmakers themselves deserve to be broken. |
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Replying to: larsb (May 11, 2009 8:34 am) But many do exist in locations where they cannot be justified. What about these?
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Replying to: fintail (May 11, 2009 9:20 am) Unnecessary stop signs can be removed by going to your city council meeting. Believe me: When they were put there, it was a traffic engineer making the educated decision that safety or traffic flow required a stop sign there. No one EVER took a city map and randomly placed stop signs.
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Regardless of what my fellow forum members think about each item, think about all the potential uses of ISA technology: Automatic speed enforcement, Road pricing per mile and time of day, lockout of certain GPS co-ordinates based on public events and national security needs, Synchronised highway travel, Automatic stopping at redlights and Stop signs...the list goes on and on. The answer to all our prayers, or total disappearance of freedom to travel? |
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Replying to: fintail (May 11, 2009 9:20 am) You know that is not a measurable number. But it comes from having driven about 500,000 miles in my lifetime, in many states and several foreign countries. Although since you have mentioned in previous posts that "life experience is OVERRATED," I doubt that would impress you. (Let's see how you feel about that statement when you hit 45 years....  )
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Replying to: larsb (May 11, 2009 9:35 am) Nah, it was the lobbyist from the sign company lining the mayor's pockets. The answer to all our prayers, or total disappearance of freedom to travel? Yes.
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Replying to: steve_ (May 11, 2009 9:48 am) Yes. That is what I am afraid of, and I think that this "Yes" is more far-reaching than the same answer to " Tea or Coffee?" as the old joke goes.
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