From: Jim Thompson
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Defeating Breathalyzer Ignition Interlocks
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:14:43 GMT,
Fred Bloggs ,
In Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design,
Article: <3E186800.8070604@nospam.com>,
Entitled: "Re: Defeating Breathalyzer Ignition Interlocks",
Wrote the following:
|
|
|Jim Thompson wrote:
|> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:00:22 GMT,
|> Fred Bloggs ,
|> In Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design,
|> Article: <3E18649A.6050400@nospam.com>,
|> Entitled: "Re: Defeating Breathalyzer Ignition Interlocks",
|> Wrote the following:
|>
|> [snip]
|>
|> |Since speed is what causes objects to collide, then by definition, the
|> |occurrence of an accident is always traveling too fast for roadway
|> |conditions -to include traffic density and other potential hazards.
|> |
|>
|> "Since speed is what causes objects to collide..." ????
|>
|> My, that's a scientific statement... still above 0.08 this morning are
|> we ?:-)
|>
|
|Some people need everything broken down into the most elemental parts.
|Care to explain how motionless objects might otherwise attempt to occupy
|the same position in space and time?
|
Ask Heisenberg ;-)
OK, enough of the humor (for the moment). There was a study conducted
by Harvard way back in the early '60's, studying *every* accident in
Massachusetts that year. Their conclusion: the *majority* of
accidents were due to some kind of mechanical anomaly, bad tires, bad
brakes, etc.
I'll see if I can find that report in my archives.
On my own observations, particularly after being T-boned on November
16, I'd say inattention/hurrying/Christmas-shopping was the major
cause. So just get rid of Christmas and the problem will go away ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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