If seat time=skill level,then taxi cabs have the world's best drivers.
Sid
"Mark J. Andy" wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, The Narbys wrote:
> > If you start with the statement:
> > I admit I broke the law
> >
> > the assertion:
> > Others got away with it and were not stopped
> >
> > is meaningless as a defense. As is the assertion:
> > I am a better driver than the average police officer.
>
> I agree. However, when you throw in the common accepting of traffic law
> breaking, particularly with regard to speed (on everyone's part), things
> get a bit more muddy, don't they? Now its a matter the individual cop's
> determination if your speed was a "bit too much over the acceptable amount
> you can speed by." And that opens up the door for selective enforcement
> based not on the cop only being able to pull one person over, but rather
> on the cop not liking that I have a shaved head.
>
> In my mind, the fix for this is to raise the speed limit 5mph and start
> ticketing anyone that's .01 mph over the new limit. Publicised correctly,
> it'd have a positive effect on the populous, and the whole "the cop didn't
> like me" thing would get tossed away. If we continue to rely so heavily
> on the cop's judgement (and don't get me wrong, at some level we'll need
> to, just not as much as we currently do), there will always be accusations
> of impropriety (some founded, some unfounded).
>
> > On a separate note I question that assertion, too - the number one thing
> > that everyone (on this list) knows will improve your driving is seat
> > time. Which is the number one thing your average highway patrol officer
> > has literally YEARS of, training notwithstanding.
>
> Um, I'd bet a fair amount that seat time cruising around at 50% of the
> limit doesn't count when you're talking about high performance driving.
> Now if the test was "ability to drive well while talking on the radio/cell
> phone" I'd agree with you...
>
> Mark
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