Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:16:35 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Drafting (was Re: Engine to auto-tranny match and the Indy 500
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  Ya, I'm just sayin...If it's called risky  drafting a semi  then it's
*really really risky* driving in city freeway traffic where you might find a
million autos driving in much closer proximity to the one in front, and in
front of that and on and on..... at much higher speeds and with less
attention being paid by their drivers...One bee inside through a window or a
blowout ahead, or thousands of other possible errors,  and it's
'crunch-city' for hundreds of vehicles, no matter how good a driver you may
be...
  Don Hanson

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

>
> Don, When in California, southern or otherwise, I've found the drivers
> remarkably polite compared to those in my home environs of Oklahoma and
> Texas.  Here, a lane change signal seems to be notice to the driver behind
> that (s)he should jump lanes into the space you signaled your intent to
> occupy.  some sort of a primal urge to conquer, I suppose.  In California,
> folks actually make space for you, if you signal.  So far as the speed limit
> and tailgating -- required practice hereabouts, it seems, and the speed
> limit gives notice of a minimum, not a maximum.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM , Don Hanson wrote:
>
>
>  The 3-second rule?  Following at a safe distance?  You ever drive a
>> freeway in So. Cal?
>
>