Re: Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists

Tom Sherman wrote:
> Jack May wrote:
>> "donquijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>>> Exactly right. The statistics won't lie: 3,000 at the Towers (a one
>>> time event) vs. 40,000 on the road every year, of which 25,000 could
>>> be saved if we were to have the safety rates of Sweden.
>>>
>>> Yet people are told that the issue is terrorism and not road
>>> terrorism. They take the picture of your *** going through the
>>> air****t, but fail to put a speed camera at troublesome spots. It's
>>> like they don't care...
>>
>> You are assuming that speed is the main cause of road deaths which is 
>> extremely unlikely.  So you don't have any approach to reduce road 
>> deaths.
>>
>> What is being developed and will be on the market in five or so years 
>> is car to car digital communications.   The communications between 
>> cars will be used to prevent accidents and deaths.
>>
>> Like commercial aircraft, the drivers will be warned to take evasive 
>> action an what action should be taken.   In extreme cases the 
>> electronics in the cars will automatically take actions to control the 
>> cars to prevent the accidents.[...]
> 
> How will this prevent the cagers from squi****ng cyclists, pedestrians 
> and animals? Will all of the latter have to be equipped with
transponders?
> 
> If motor vehicles are developed that will not hit each others, that will

> make the cagers even more careless about cyclists and pedestrians.
> 
Back in the 1950s in cycle training I was told to take up a space on the 
  road and not ride in the gutter.  The result was that I was constantly 
hooted by motorists for being in their way.  Imagine that combined with 
a system where they can whizz about ad lib in no danger of hurting 
themselves or each other.

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