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   Your Name to twsherman@REMOVE_THISsouthslope.net   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   16 Mar 14 12:02:30   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , T0m $herman   
    wrote:   
   > On 3/14/2014 1:19 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article <2014031323094967896-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,   
   > > Savageduck  wrote:   
   > >> On 2014-03-14 05:08:34 +0000, Your Name  said:   
   > >>> In article <201403132129431052-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck   
   > >>>  wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> I guess your driving skills and demands for a clean driver space   
   > >>>> preclude you from driving in the company of the bunch of extremely   
   > >>>> distracted drivers who have this type of steering wheel to occupy their   
   > >>>> minds and relieve their boredom as they make their way around the track.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Their "minds" (what little they apparently have) should be occupied by   
   > >>> DRIVING - that's the entire point.  :-\   
   > >>>   
   > >>> If you're driving and have to do unnecessary nonsense to "occupy your   
   > >>> mind and relieve your boredom", then you shouldn't be driving at all.   
   > >>   
   > >> So you missed the sarcasm in my use of "boredom". Those F1 drivers are   
   > >> so far removed from "boredom" when they are running average lap speeds   
   > >> at the edge of the control envelope. This is a small group of the   
   > >> world's most skilled and talented drivers.   
   > >> I guess you don't know about adjusting front/rear-left/right brake   
   > >> bias, or left/right diff bias, fuel flow, performance mapping, or many   
   > >> of the other inputs an F1 driver has to deal with at extreme speed.   
   > >> Strangely enough many of the innovations found in the development of   
   > >> those cars eventually trickles down to the average consumer cars.   
   > >   
   > > You'll notice that a racecar driver does not fiddle with a radio, GPS   
   > > system, mobile phone, etc., etc. ... their minds on on the task of   
   > > driving and the equipment necessary to drive the car.   
   > >   
   > You are unfamiliar with off-road racing then.  And most racing series   
   > now have two-way radio communication between the driver and pit chief.   
      
   Good grief!  :-\   
      
   Thos radios are pre-tuned ... the driver does not fiddle with knobs and   
   switches while trying to drive the car.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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