Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)

date posted 25th January 2003 10:50

They're pretty much all automatic in the US - taking your foot off the brake
and putting your foot on the accelerator (gently so as not to jerk off the
line) takes about two seconds so it looks a lot more serene.

Dave

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From: "Darran Shepherd" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)


> > I may be wrong, but I believe the fine folks in Germany shoot
> > such people in the face for their transgressions.
>
> But driving in Germany on the Autobahns is a dream. Because people know
> that they may have a Porsche/BMW/Mecedes/etc. coming up behind them at
> 200kph, they don't hog lane 3. They have lane discipline. Oh how nice
> that is.
>
> The biggest contrast I had was two weeks driving a Ford Mustang when I
> was out in Cali on business, then flying straight out to Israel for 4
> weeks just outside Tel Aviv driving a 106 diesel.
>
> In the states, the lights go green, people decide to put it into gear
> and slowly pull away, everything's very relaxed. Then in Israel, if you
> weren't already in second gear within half a second of the lights going
> green, the queue of cars behind start leaning on their horns. You
> wonder why they all slow down at the level crossing until one day you
> get there and there's a train roaring past with not a sign of the
> barriers moving from their upright position...
>
> Certainly kept you awake!
>
> Darran.
>
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