[geeks] Work getting slow

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Apr 20 18:15:04 CDT 2002


On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:36:13PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > Coming back from Burning Man in 1999, I spent a *long* time at 160mph on
> > > I80. That road kicks ass. Its funny how, at those speeds, even the long
> > > sweeping curves that you might not even notice at 80mph all of a sudden
> > > take a lot more thought and technique to navigate safely.
> > 
> > What do you have to drive to sustain those speeds?  Even at 80, things get
> > tricky in my Jetta
> > 
> 
> My PT Cruiser is exceptionally well behaved at 120mph - where the speed
> limiter kicks in.  I suspect that at theoretical top speeds of 140 to
> 150 it would still be well behaved as long as I had appropriate tires...


You mean to tell me that you still haven't removed the limiter?  And you
call yourself an auto person.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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