Re:Daytime Running Lights

[Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu>]

The only problem is that those bozzos won't pay attention to anything!

Alex

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Lee Levitt wrote:

> Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu> wrote:
> >Ah! Why settle for 5% increase in margin of safety, when you can settle
> >for 200% (or more!) by petitioning change on what and how people need to
> >do/pass to get their driver's license? I see many "back route"
> >solutions... Like the most infamous one -- like govt's ever stingent
> >emission laws on new vehicle -- when the source of the problem is those
> >old clunkers on the road that are (frankly) not likely to be replaced with
> >new cars soon.
> >
> >What's next? Horns that will hunk every 5 seconds after poeple are pretty
> >much conditioned with these DRLs? And next? Government requires car
> >manufactuers to paint the car in neon, glow-in-the-dark paint? (Hmmm...
> >which I recall, that long time ago MB did found that orange-painted models
> >has the least accident rate of all car colors...)
> >
> >Why not go to the source of the problem -- namely, not letting "lamers" to
> >pass and hold driver's license -- and get it over with?
> 
> I'm not out to save the world...I have enough stuff on my plate. I just
> want every % improvement I can find at a *reasonable* investment in
> time/money. I'm not going to wear a Snell-approved helmet when I drive down
> the street either.
> 
> Trying to get drivers' ed or licensing policies changed isn't something
> that will be a good use of my personal resources. OTOH, my kids *will* go
> to proper driving schools when it's time.
> 
> I'll do everything I can to be a safe driver, but if I can get that bozo's
> attention before he pulls into my path, that would be a Good Thing (tm)
> indeed. No?
> 
> Just my .02. YMMV,
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
> Lee Levitt
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