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- From: cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Motorway Madness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.143434.17421@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:34:34 GMT
- References: <C0Fou8.IJ3@brunel.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.151144.14783@andersen.co.uk> <1993Jan21.143852.71@logica.co.uk>
- Reply-To: cam@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1993Jan21.143852.71@logica.co.uk> adrian@pluto.logica.co.uk writes:
- >darby@andersen.co.uk (Dave Darby) writes:
-
- >Yeah - HEAR HEAR! To my mind the police could do a great many things worse
- >than just automatically stopping anyone who pulls into another driver's
- >stopping distance. These crass and selfish people create a situation in which
- >good drivers are discouraged because they continually get unfairly delayed by
- >these arseholes.
-
- And how much do you get delayed by a selfish driver forcing you back a
- few car lengths? A few seconds at most, until the unlucky break that you
- miss a traffic light change, which turns it into maybe half a minute.
-
- I recommend an experiment: drive from home to the office like a selfish
- maniac a few times, and then drive to the office carefully and safely,
- comparing the two average times. I expect you to be amazed at how little
- difference it makes. I was, and that experiment was one of the reasons
- I stopped struggling to stay ahead in my rush hour commutes. It didn't
- make sense being at least ten times more likely to have an accident for
- the sake of arriving at work at most one minute earlier.
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- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna +44 (0)31 667 1011 x2550
- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
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