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- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Raising the limit
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:09:25 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- jyri+@CMU.EDU (Jyri Virkki) writes:
- >> C) American/Japaneese cars (the majority) are _much_ less safe than the great
- >> European touring sedans... We don't have the equipment, I'd hate 90
- >> in my Civic.
-
- >This reason particularly is not true. A Civic, or any other equivalent
- >car, will cruise all day at 110mph with no difficulty at all. There
- >are very few cars anymore that are not suited for 100+ driving, even
- >the worst offenders of a few years ago, big american sedans, are now
- >being built with acceptable handling. The only modern car I've been in
- >that became twitchy after 70 or so was the Geo Metro.
-
- That's not really true. The last generation of the Sentra (when it
- was still boxy) was skittish over 70 and jumpy over 80 (and needed a
- hill to hit 80 :-). So's the older Hyundai Excel.
-
- The new econoboxes are certainly getting better, though, and there
- never was a problem with the midsized cars. 100mph is too high for
- most of the econoboxes though -- many of them can't even maintain
- 85mph.
-
- Picking your speed limit by making certain that all cars and drivers
- can safely maintain that limit is impossible. Picking one where most
- can do so is easy, just watch what traffic does -- on the average
- people don't run themselves and their cars at the edge of the
- envelope. Based on what I see everyday that safe point would be well
- above 55mph, probably around 70-75mph (and whattaya know, that's right
- around where the speed limits used to be around here).
-
- jim frost
- jimf@centerline.com
-