On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:27:31 -0700, art wrote:

On 15 Jun, 11:56, Cecil Moore wrote:
art wrote:
What is so wrong in applying a governer to all engines.

The first time a driver needed to use acceleration
and didn't have it to avoid a fatal accident, the
requirement would be in deep dodo.

For instance, on a long straightaway with no
oncoming traffic, someone decides to pass a
couple of 18-wheelers. The car following that
one decides to do the same thing. Suddenly
ahead, a car pulls into the oncoming lane from
a side road. Emergency acceleration would save
lives but it's not available due to a governor.
Five children are killed. Imagine the outrage.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com


Hi Arthur,

Your responses are always so insightful.

To add to the confusion, instead of five children killed, the cars are
passing twenty two gas tankers when a school bus pulls out near a
nuclear facility in the outskirts of Keokuk. The conflagration kills
1345 children (there were more busses behind the first, it was the
last day of grade school) and the raging inferno melts down the
transmission lines from the nuclear plant that went into immediate
overload. This caused the nuclear pile to go into the "China
Syndrome" and melt through the containment and disturbing an unknown
fault that ran beneath the plant.

The earth rent and sent shock waves through metropolis Keokuk toppling
buildings and throwing more school busses (on the road from closing
schools) into yawning chasms opening up as the earth quakes. Death
toll at this point now stands at slightly less than a million.

The National Guard (which is otherwise away on other, foreign,
business) does not show up and famine wipes out two million more in
the surrounding country side as the president helicopters over the
scene for Fox news commentary coloring.

The stock market plunges and politicians open committees investigating
the cause of this calamity. Soon, all cars are stopped at every
intersection as the newly instituted Department of School Crossing
Security inspects under the hood of every car for contraband
governers. Digital examinations up tail pipes are common. The
designer of this governer product is known to be hiding somewhere in
Texas so we immediately declare war on Canada with a scorch the earth
policy (brought to you by Halliburton and Anderson Consulting firms)
until he is found.

Four years later and the ice cap has been melted putting out the fires
in downtown Keokuk (Chicago, Boston, New York, Tampa, Phoenix....) and
the president expresses his support for the governer designer and
hails this crowning victory from the Hacienda Blanca.

With apologies for lifting a very old idea from an equally old book By
Sinclair Lewis "It Can't Happen Here."

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC