I agree. However, when you throw in the common accepting of traffic law breaking, particularly with regard to speed (on everyone's part), things get a bit more muddy, don't they? Now its a matter th
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --231D9F5B908358F06D701B96 Some taxi cab drivers are terrific. Ah, I remember getting a taxi cab ride in NYC that was outstanding! The guy was a master of
<< The real point is what pretty well trained means. The highway patrol takes 2 days of driving instruction, 1 of which is partially in car (It may sound like not very much, but think about all thing
Heh, that brings up a funny story. While on honeymoon in Rome, we had to take a limo across town, and what shows up but some slightly stretched Mercedes gasoline 5-speed (older with 4 round headligh
Sorry Mark, the way to fix it is to set all the speed limits at the 85th percentile speed rounded up to the next 5 mph increment and ticket anyone going 5 over that. That way the vast majority of dri
This won't work unless speedometers can be calibrated and sealed. Also allowing a different size tire would mean recalibrating the speedo all over again. This would be very costly and you can BET th
It's awfully funny that with lots of other rules that specify limits this isn't a problem. See, for example, minimum weight rules in roadracing. Now, any reasonably intelligent racer will set their
In Road racing you have specialized cars that are dedicated to one specific task on flat (mostly) surfaces at high speed. Those cars are driven by top drivers and maintained better in a 500 mile rac
Author: "Steven T. Ekstrand" <cyberlaw@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:36:14 -0700
I've never seen a speedometer from the factory in good condition with the original gearing and tire diameter that read slow. Most I've seen read 3-10% fast at 60mph. Meaning your indicated speed is
I disagree with that advice Jon. My advice would be to ignore 90% of the posts and seek out the 10% of things are helpful, relevant, or entertaining. Like any communication on the internet, it helps
This was quite some time ago and was on a Ferrari or a Lambo I forget which but still the car manufacturers will not guarantee that the speedometers are accurate even if most read slow. ____________
In the last 10 years I have had an Acura Integra, and a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX. About 8 months ago I got a 911 RS America. I never got pulled over in the Acura or the Mitsu, but have been pulled over