Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:12:38 -0700
Reply-To:     "John C..." <jcarp1910@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         "John C..." <jcarp1910@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW Van Profiling
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Has anyone noticed that cars seem to "bunch" up?
They get close to each other and travel for miles that way?
With 5 miles to another "pack" behind them.
Must be some sort of phenomenon !!!  heh... heh...

Like when a diesel is parked on an On ramp.
an optical illusion or some such thing
has folk thinking that the truck is actually moving!
they are just starting to pass laws stopping this.
JC...



On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>wrote:

> At 10:44 AM 1/10/2011, Steven Johnson wrote:
>
>> The other profiling is when a will be passing a driver along a freeway and
>> when they notice I'm passing, they speed up.
>>
>
> I think that's completely unconscious and makes no difference what
> you're driving.  I've seen it happen over and over for decades,
> driving many different vehicles.  It may be a particular type of
> driver that does it, but I don't think they're aware of it.
>
> I have met I think one individual who simply didn't want me to pass
> him, for reasons that must have seemed good to him at the
> time.  Since we were slithering around on Pennsylvania 81 at midnight
> in a snowstorm, he in an MGB and I in a Fiat 128 he was easily able
> to accomplish this.  Made little difference - after a while he
> couldn't go any more because nobody in front of him could go any
> more, and we spent the next fifteen hours there buried in snow to our
> necks; or more specifically up to the beltline of the Fiat.  Around
> noon the State of PA came around in snow machines handing out quarts
> of milk, and took out a baby that needed help; and way way way down
> the hill behind us they were digging cars out with a Pay-Loader.  But
> the not yet famous fantasy novelist Robin McKinley and her former not
> yet husband and I dug that light little car out and turned it around
> and mushed it down the hill down a set of 4x4 tracks.  Took us a
> couple-three hours I think, but I bet it would have taken twelve
> hours for the official crew to reach us.  Then we drove quick as a
> bunny to my aunt in Washington (Twp?) NJ, and Robin practically flew
> to the head.  Twenty-year-old girls have both remarkable strength and
> odd sense of priorities, sometimes...it was three or four in the
> afternoon and we'd left Dickinson College in Carlisle PA at something
> like eight the night before.  She'd started mentioning it around
> breakfast time.  '71, this would have been.
>
> Yours,
> David
>