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Around here, (FNQ, Australia) if you follow someone too closely, you can get
booked for tailgating. At night, you have to watch out for inconsiderate
so-and-so's who drive up right behind you and blind you with their
headlights which always seem to be stuck on the high-beam setting. Modern
headlights are sure good at lighting up the car interior!! :o)
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
> Now down here in North Carolina, the locals are so worried about being • polite
> to each other that the highway comes to a stop if there is a lot of • traffic
> merging from an on ramp (as the highway traffic slows down to let the • other
> car in, who has been slowing down because there isn't roomm perfectly in • synch
> with each other). Or when a car does merge normally, do they get up to • highway
> speed before merging, no (there must be something I don't know about speed
> limits, like the speed limit in an exit/on ramp lane is only 45 or • something
> stupid), they merge at 45 (or sometimes slower), and then start to think • about
> using their accelerator. Of course the whole pattern is totally screwed
> because more than half the drivers are from elsewhere in the country, and • thus
> are following entirely different rules. They also apparently equip cars • around
> here with incredibly strong magnets in their front bumper (hopefully my • new
> Saturn will trick these folks!). Everyone I have ever talked to who has • come
> from somewhere else is amazed at how close people drive (even on a dark • and
> windy two lane country road, and no, they don't want to pass you, if you • slow
> down in a good passing zone, they won't pass, obviously they are lonely • and
> want company).
>
> Frank
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