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From: beringt@ncc1701.eng.McMaster.CA (Tom Bering)
Subject: Re: Emergent Behaviour
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Chuck McManis (cmcmanis@Sun.COM) wrote:
: Driver know that higway patrol
: officers are trying to catch speeders so they tend to drive in a bunch
: hoping that their car won't be noticed in this pack of cars going 70
: MPH, or at least if the pack is noticed their car won't be chosen as
: the one to get a ticket. No one told the drivers to drive in bunches,
: rather this behaviour emerges as all drivers seek to keep from getting
: a ticket. 

In Canada, the cops have been known to pull the ENTIRE line of
cars over to the side of the road.  We also have photo radar
here too, and multiple speeders don't bother it either.

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Tom Bering
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