<VV> Stupid Driving (Little Corvair)

[Hal]

*Guys; I go back to the mid 90's on this list. These are mild transgressions
of the agreed upon rules but it reached a tipping point for me*. *I learned
a lot on here and met some good people. But I have decided to do without VV.
One rant too many; one political reference too many. It gets old! Maybe I
got old. Anyway, I don't post anymore and there isn't much Corvair related
info anymore either. I know, nobody cares---------------------*

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alan and Clare Wesson <
alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk> wrote:

> > The attitude here in Obamaland has become (over the last couple of
> > decades) more and more synonymous with that of the Europeans.
>
> This is very interesting, because my take on it is that we are importing
> risk aversion and a litigation culture from the USA!! In NC, where I keep
> my
> Vair, most of the country roads have a 45 mph limit, which is so slow as to
> be idiotic. And you had 55 mph all through the Reagan era (on INTERSTATES,
> for Chrissake!!). So you can't even blame the political Left for all the
> stupidities! I remember, the first time I came to the USA, wondering why
> all
> the cars had speedos that only read to 85, when the average European one
> read to 140. Presumably it was because they really only needed to read to
> 55.
>
> And guess what? Our national 60 mph limit is now being lowered to 50 on
> most
> country roads. And guess where they got the idea from?
>
> Not trying to be inflammatory, but it really does seem to me that it was in
> the USA where the lawyers and the suing first got a toe-hold, and that this
> is at the root of a lot of the idiocies that we face (some of the
> 'justifications' for our idiotic speed limits are being given as councils'
> concern at being sued by (e.g.) someone whose kid got run over, because
> they
> hadn't taken all the steps within the power to improve road safety).
>
> Corvair content: guess who started all that? And guess which car was the
> object of his ire. Surely, this whole thing was started by our Ralphie...?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
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