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14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Lying Black Boxes And ... · 0 replies · +3 points

or we stop with the pretense of safety, and stop raising revenue by an additional driving tax-speeding tickets. Even if the speed limit is set at the 85th percentile, that means more than 1 in 7 people become automatic 'lawbreakers'

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Lying Black Boxes And ... · 0 replies · +3 points

So if we have to have 'speed limits' for non-commercial traffic, why can't it be 100mph daytime 80mph night?

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Mileage-Based User Fee... · 0 replies · +1 points

After restoring the integrity of the fuel tax, and seeing that it more than covers the maintenance of the road network, consideration should be giving to phasing out that fuel tax due to returns on the people's money that the government holds-ala CAFR http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-WI-S1.htm
and
youtube.com/watch?v=bn3hUcmNDdA

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - CAFE Spells RIP For Tr... · 0 replies · +2 points

and Ford could possibly bring the new international Ranger to the US market
That might only take $100 million to 'tune' to American tastes.

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - US Should Beware Of Av... · 0 replies · +3 points

Yes it is a valid average speed measurement, but the speed laws are not average speed limit.
Because I could drive 100mph per hour, get to my destination, and then 'amortize' my average speed by the time I an not in motion.

This is just the final frontier in highway robbery, and I think it will be one too far. It will break the camel's back. [and spur shotgun sales]

and 'if the average speed is above the limit, then the instantaneous speed must have been at or above the average as well' is only true if you have informational data on the particles position/velocity. See Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. The fundamental theorem of calculus requires an equation... and our system of jurisprudence requires an accuser for a crime, which this totally fails on both counts (the accuser, and the crime)

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - US Should Beware Of Av... · 2 replies · +4 points

First off the statutory speed limit is an instantaneous speed limit, not an average one.
So these average speed limit cameras, unless they track you continuously, and can point out a specific instance where the vehicle is over said speed limit, are worthless junk.

Secondly, the statutory speed limit applies to commercial vehicles only.

and if the criminal who call themselves government try this; either the license plates come off, or target practice season begins.

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - CAFE Spells RIP For Tr... · 0 replies · +2 points

A carbon tax is nonsense. Carbon dioxide is not pollution.

People and businesses have no right to pollute. So if anything that came out of power plants besides water vapor or carbon dioxide, then the state(s) that are downwind have an actionable cause. Which is a function of federal district court.

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - CAFE Spells RIP For Tr... · 2 replies · +2 points

Eric Peters missed the mark. The 35.5mpg is calculated with the uncorrected fuel economy numbers, not the window sticker.
The Ford Ranger has not seen anything more than a token injection of R&D money. Throw $500 million at it, and it could meet that 35.5mpg in a special SFE version.

The people who occupy the positions in government are not stupid or inept, they are just working to implement a post-industrial age. United Nations Agenda 21 in full effect.

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - Trip to Mars – O... · 0 replies · +1 points

There really isn't one particular thing you can point to, and can eliminate, when it comes to weight savings.
It really is a design perspective, the government mandates you protect people who do not want to protect themselves.[against the most absurd crash scenarios] The 'safety cage' of the car has to be substantially robust, which requires expensive steel, or more bulk of cheaper steel.
If you take out [forward] airbags, then the load limiting function of the seat belts needs to be removed, so that will increase injury [to belted occupants]. I'd rather keep the adaptive forward airbags, with seat belt pre-tensioners + load limiters.
There is no weight savings for the deletion of traction control. The hardware aspect of traction control is built into the ABS, the software aspect uses the ABS wheel speed sensors, + throttle by wire system.

14 years ago @ National Motorists Ass... - What Do You Mean, I Lo... · 0 replies · +2 points

Too much tyranny.

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