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Driving...



Paul quoth:

>  RE: the following: "The ability to think two or more
> steps ahead, to accurately determine position of traffic around you
> within several car radius including their relative speeds and signes (if
> any) that the give you, to be able to see through the rearview and side
> view morriors where the eyes of each driver are looking.   

>  Lighten up Alexei.  

Aw shux, Paul, I tend to agree with this summary.  I thought it was a 
pretty decent thumbnail.......if more drivers tried to achieve just 
this, it would sure make traffic move better and more safely !  (And 
not necessarily slower...) 

And Paul - I can understand your defending NH police - especially if 
they post emails in the station house with the legend "target for today" 
underneath.....  nudge, nudge, wink, wink........

> Paul Royal  (A proud citizen of NH who knows better than to say that
>          "NH cops suck")

(Tweeking of list-mates aside....) Most cops are pretty decent people.  
They have a real challenge in that they spend days at a time 
"staring into the sewer of life".  This has a strong tendency to 
generate distrust of ones' fellow "persons" (so as to avoid 
sexism...)  And some of them do become just plain ornery and 
contrary, but those folks are rare.  Most state trooper 
organizations have very high standards of conduct.  They're not to 
blame for being assigned to enforce asinine laws....they just try to 
do their jobs and hopefully exercise some judgement.

Of course, all it takes is one trooper with a bee up his butt to blow 
PR efforts out the window and make an enemy for life!


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