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Re: TOP SPEED? (was: cruising at 100 mph)



In <44eikf$aif@morgoth.sfu.ca> ebin@news.sfu.ca (Eric Bin) writes: 
>
>Bob Brown <tsi@cybernetics.net> writes:
>
>>I consider myself as somebody who knows about cars but there's
something 
>>I will never understand: Why do we all worry about top speed and all
that 
>>stuff if the speed limit in the states is 65 mph? Is it just because
we 
>>like to know this kind of stuff? I mean, what if the top speed is 120
mph 
>>or 240 or 360 mph, the fastest we can get away on a public road is
(if 
>>you don't get caught) 75 maybe? 85 pushing your luck...
>>Please, comments are welcome.
>
>i don't know about you but the speed limit means nothing to me.  I go
>as fast as I can based on conditions.  85-95 on clear sunny days, 75
>in light rain and 55-65 in heavy rain.  In my limited travel in the
>states I've only seen two state troopers the whole time, both of them
>had someone on the side of the road with them.
>
>Eric Bin
>ebin@sfu.ca
                                                                       
  Eric, are you as stupid as you sound??? Don't you know that the road
is most dangerous when it is lightly wet. And in heavy rain if you hit
a large pool of water going that speed your going to go spinning. I
just hope that you don't hurt anyone else when you kill yourself.


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