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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:02:16 GMT
From: "A. Thomas/C. Hollinger" <athomasnopsamr.net>
Subject: Re: Tailgating is Evil


Wah Wah Wah Wah! Take your holier-than-thou attitude elsewhere. Provide hard statistics instead of your stupid, biased, short-sighted observations. Joshua Landess wrote: > I have seen, here and there, drivers of newer Saabs tailgating in > disproportionate numbers. It makes me cringe. > > When you tailgate, you communicate to the car ahead of you that he or > she has no right to stop quickly, even if an unexpected road condition > arises. Any rational person understands that, on occasion, unexpected > road conditions do arise. Wise drivers leave adequate room ahead of > them to have a good chance of reacting safely to the problem. > > Tail gaiters endanger not only themselves but the person in front of > them. They penalize the person in front of them for leaving adequate > stopping distance. They also endanger the car following this ugly > (and pathetically macho) spectacle by increasing unnecessarily the > chances that an accident will occur in front of him or her. > > I look forward to the day when a small but apparently clueless > percentage of Saab owners cease and desist from feeling that their > road rights are superior to those of others'. We own pretty good > cars. We may drive a bit more quickly than some others, where > conditions seem to afford the opportunity. No-one,... I repeat: > NO-ONE has the right to tailgate. > > JL

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