Re: Advice to Drivers of Small Pointless Japanese Cars

In article <2lav54prdge9ofp543fjbehouggdv9fhch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In message
> <alangbaker-0C63F3.00522623062008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan
> Baker <alangbaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >> >What I am appalled by is that we've come so far in our society that 
> >> >anyone in here would applaud someone knowingly and deliberately 
> >> >proceeding with a lane change that has become unsafe.
> >> 
> >> As I said in my other post, I don't know whom to applaud. But, unlike
> >> you, I don't know whom to denounce, either.
> >
> >I do: both, but the original poster more. It's only an assumption that 
> >the other driver was acting deliberately. 
> 
> So you would still denounce the econobox driver even if he were
> keeping a steady course and speed (one of the possible scenarios I
> outlined elsewhere)?

I'm not going to engage in discussing endless hypotheticals.

It's really quite simple: stating that you'll continue a lane change in 
the face of having the space you were planning to move into gone is 
stupid. Actually deliberately doing so is stupid and dangerous.

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