XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:22:05 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:44:47 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   >>>>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:37:09 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:20:46 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   >>>>>>> TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle"    
   >>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>On Sep 27, 8:46 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"   
   >>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> On Sep 27, 4:51 pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> the Jungle"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> > , but I'm still nervous of other drivers   
   >>>>>>>>> > forcing me to run the light, like when they keep going and I am in   
   the   
   >>>>>>>>> > middle of the intersection.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Don't be ridiculous.  If you're already in the middle of an   
   >>>>>>> intersection you're either already running the light or you're with   
   >>>>>>> the green and perfectly legal.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> No one can"force" you to run the light.  You're as bad as the idiots   
   >>>>>>>>> who say speeders on the freeways force everyone else to speed.!!!     
    I   
   >>>>>>>>> never speed or run reds and no criminal is gonna force me to.  I got   
   >>>>>>>>> balls.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>You can only be stupid to cut off a car coming at you determined to   
   >>>>>>>>run the red light and whatever stands on his way.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>Actually you'll be charged for the accident too!   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>You are obssessed with speed without minding where that speeding   
   >>>>>>>>happens. For example, I do NOT mind a Ferrari going 120 mph on the   
   >>>>>>>>expressway on the passing lane.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> God Lord, I certainly mind somebody going 120 MPH regardless of the   
   >>>>>>> car and regardless if they're Michael Schumacher.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Why?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>  Because they're going to come straight into the back of   
   >>>>> somebody going 75 MPH who is passing somebody going 70 MPH... Probably   
   >>>>> a big truck.  That'd be messy.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Supercars driven as they should be driven on a limited access highway   
   >>>>coexist just fine with cars that can't get out of their own way like old   
   >>>>2CVs on the autobahn. Speed is simply irrelevant.   
   >>   
   >>> Funny thing about driving like a fool as you obviously do.  it doesn't   
   >>> ever make your pecker any bigger...     as much as you'd like it   
   >>> to...   
   >>   
   >>Unsupported accusations of poor driving are not an argument. Please   
   >>engage your brain and try to defend your control freak ideas.   
   >   
   > If wanting mal-adjusted clowns like you to never be allowed in a car   
   > that will exceed 65 MPH when they're around anyone I care about makes   
   > me a control freak, then so be it.   
      
      
   It is quite clear that you are only capable of insults and not rational   
   thought or supported arguments. The only rational course of action is to   
   now ignore you.   
      
      
      
   >>The fact remains that on the German Autobahn very slow and very fast   
   >>automobiles coexist. The reason is an absence of control freak behavior   
   >>and control freak laws on speed.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>It doesn't make a difference to me. Then again I'm not a control   
   >>>>>>freak, like the LLBs who've blocked the passing lane which brings some   
   >>>>>>arseholish drivers into the right and shoulder at high speed where they   
   >>>>>>cause problems for me. Like the BMW M3 driver that passed me using an on   
   >>>>>>ramp acceleration lane and the right shoulder.   
   >>   
   >>>>>>I drove nearly 120mph on the autobahn behind a cop I couldn't quite keep   
   >>>>>>up with (damn 1.6L rental car ;)) and it was a complete non-event. It's   
   >>>>>>time americans stopped being a bunch of holier than thou control freaks   
   >>>>>>and stopped trying to turn all of society into a first grade government   
   >>>>>>school classroom.   
   >>   
   >>>>>   Unless you're making that all up as I suspect, I think   
   >>>>> that it was probably 120 KPH since speedometers over that register in   
   >>>>> kilometers.    That'd make it about 70 MPH.  Not many 1.6 litre cars   
   >>>>> that will even go 120 MPH.  Maybe a mini-cooper.  I sure wouldn't want   
   >>>>> to rear end a semi truck in one of those...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>No, 118mph, 190kph. It was a then new '99 audi A4, 4 door sedan, MT,   
   >>>>FWD. It doesn't take much power to sustain 118mph in a car with even   
   >>>>halfway aerodynamics. Speed was for all practical purposes maxed out.   
   >>   
   >>> ...however it takes a fair bit of torque to get it there...   I think   
   >>> you were fantasizing...   probably dreaming that you were Mario.   
   >>   
   >>No. Rural autobahn traffic has an 85% speed of roughly 100mph.   
   >>   
   >>http://americanautobahn.piratenews.org/americanautobahng1.jpg   
   >>   
   >>>>http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=90376   
   >>>>hmm... guess I did have maxed out. It seemed like if there was enough   
   >>>>open road it could have made 200kph.. it was gaining speed every so   
   >>>>slowly, but I had to slow shortly after reaching 190kph.   
      
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