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Old 2004-11-09, 10:51 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by sperry

Plus, remember how our governement works, laws get passed or not for these reasons:

1) lobbyists buy off their representatives
2) supporting a law helps a representative get re-elected
3) the law affects the representative personally

Since a "black-box" law won't be popular with the public, and since representatives like to speed just like the rest of us, it's gonna take an ass-load of insurance company lobby money to get that passed... and even then I don't think it would be easy. Americans like to speed... which wouldn't actually be a big problem if we would actually teach people how to drive and keep the alcohol from behind the wheel.

Man, I hope you're right --- I can't afford to purchase and mothball a lifetime's supply of WRX's right now.
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