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Brain-Dead Road Engineering (was: driver's ed. is a joke)



 lily1@ix.netcom.com (J. Hale ) writes: 
>> It's just too damned easy to get a license in this country.  

 rpaller@ix.netcom.com (Robert M Paller ) writes: (Re: driver's ed. is a joke:)
>I agree 100%. After visiting Germany last year and travelling the
>Autobahn in both a car and on a motorcycle at speeds of 90mph+, I no
>longer feel safe on American roads. Not only do we need to be retrained
>on driving, DOT needs to do major work on the roadways and signs.

>In Germany there is not such thing as a blind corner, they use mirrors
>where ever they feel it is dangerous to pull into traffic. Thus there
>is no need to have your car dangerously set in traffic to look for
>oncoming cars.

Of course in America we are blessed with such brain-dead engineering as 
left-lane entrances and exits.  The left entrances are probably the worst.  
Here you have a bunch of people **merging into what is normally regarded as 
the fast lane!!!**  So you get all these people that would normally be 
cruising by in the left lane at a higher speed doing their little non-signaled 
maneuver into the far right lanes (and sometimes the shoulders, killing people 
who are changing flat tires.)

Add to that all the folks from out of town driving around trying to search for 
some section of the city w/o decent street signs.  We also have a number of 
"disappearing lanes" that are not marked at all.  All of this goofiness adds 
up to accidents, deaths, and confusion.  How many years have we been building 
roads?  And we still haven't figured it out?   




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