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Noticed on the toll road this morning…

As I sat in traffic this morning watching the cars in the Dulles Toll Road HOV lane whiz by, I noticed the following:

Percentage of cars violating the law with a single driver – 25%

Percentage of Mercedes violating the law with a single driver – 100%

Posted by Chris ODonnell on Monday, November 5, 2001, at 9:00 am. Filed under Random. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Mark | November 5, 2001 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

    Let x = percentage of Mercedes drivers violating the law who are stopped by law enforcement; and y = the percentage of all other drivers stopped for violating the law; and z = the number of Mercedes drivers who actually have to pay some sort of penalty for violating the law (beyond having their lawyers “work it out”).

    I predict

    x Let x = percentage of Mercedes drivers violating the law who are stopped by law enforcement; and y = the percentage of all other drivers stopped for violating the law; and z = the number of Mercedes drivers who actually have to pay some sort of penalty for violating the law (beyond having their lawyers “work it out”).

    I predict

    x

  2. Chris | November 5, 2001 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    The reason I don’t hop over into the HOV lane myself is that I know that at the exact instant I do it, some anomoly in the space-time continuum will instantly deliver a state trooper to the toll road about 1/10 of a mile ahead of where I merge into the HOV lane.

    Mrs. Oyamot – yikes! I don’t remember her being particularly young back in 1985…maybe it was just my perception of “old” when I was 17!