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Re: Carlsbad coasters
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:33:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
> Gawd that's frightening. How much variation do you typically see in speeds?
> IE, you mentioned people driving 250 km/h - are there people still puttering
> along in the right-lanes going 80 km/h?
Yes. French(1) pulling campers and people with motorhomes and suchlike. So
you are looking at a 200 kip difference between them and the guy in his
Porsche hotdogging. In unlimited sections most people are going 160-180 or
thereabouts.
The 80 kip drivers aren't your problem, its the guy doing 115 that pulls out
to pass them without checking to see if someone is coming up on him that are
likely to cause you trouble.
So you really really have to stay sharp. The unlimited speed sections of the
Autobahns are only in rural areas where visibility is good and there aren't
a lot of entrances and exits. More congested areas are 160, 120, 100, or
even 80. And German drivers are, lets face it, more competent than US or
Canadian drivers at high speed driving.
Still their fatality rate (expressed as percentage of autobahn accidents
that are fatal) is higher than ours. As you would expect, no amount of
airbags are going to save you if you leave a roadway at 200+ kips.
Should we FUT this to somewhere else??? Your call.
1 - I am not trying to pick on the french (although someone ought to :-)
)... they have this asinine law that taxes cars with more than 2 liters
displacement way way more than those with under, so the french buy
relatively large cars with 1.99 liter engines that are WAY underpowered and
get terrible mileage (it's a known fact that the right size engine will get
better mileage because it's in the right place in its power curve) and can
barely get out of their own way.
++Lar
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GFyM40.DG7@lugnet.com... (...) out (...) are (...) This isn't a knock at all - I'm just curious... what is the origin of the term "kip"? I'm guessing that's slang for km/h, right? (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GFwCvo.3t5@lugnet.com... (...) down (...) view (...) Gawd that's frightening. How much variation do you typically see in speeds? IE, you mentioned people driving 250 km/h - are there (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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