On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:36:06 -0400, "Christopher M."
> wrote:

>
>"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:14:26 -0400, "Christopher M."
>> > wrote:
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>>>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 18:03:11 -0400, "Christopher M."
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm from Massachusetts.
>>>>>
>>>>>I couldn't drive 80 mph.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why not? I drive in MA most every day. Often at 80 mph. On parts of
>>>> 495 you'd get run over if you did less.
>>>
>>>If you're doing 70, and you blow a tire, you're pretty much dead.
>>
>> That's not true. Haven't you seen any of the high speed chases in
>> CA... the CHP puts out spikes and the perp keeps going like nothing
>> happened, and all four tires could be blown.
>
>All four tires are blown, so there's no swerving to the side.

Have you ever blown a tire? I blew two in one trip from NC to NY
in 1970. 1965 Corvair Corsa- doing 75 on I95. First one was a
rear tire. That scared me a bit but no damage was done. A few
hundred miles later I blew a front one. Love those cheap
re-treads.

If a 65 corvair with a very tired, inexperienced driver can survive a
blowout or two-- I think you're overestimating the danger there.

If you crash because of a blown tire, you're either really unlucky or
you panicked and did something stupid.

Jim