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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:05 AM
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A good rule of thumb is to only operate a vehicle at 80% of your potential. This leaves you a little margin should the unexpected come-up. If you are driving at 100% of your potential, you are already doing your best under normal circumstances with no remaining capability for error. 116 exceeds most people's 80% margin.
 
Old May 6, 2007 | 02:04 PM
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A good rule of thumb is to only operate a vehicle at 80% of your potential. This leaves you a little margin should the unexpected come-up. If you are driving at 100% of your potential, you are already doing your best under normal circumstances with no remaining capability for error. 116 exceeds most people's 80% margin.
Is this BS anything like the nurse and/or doctor at the hospital asking you how bad your pain is "on a scale of 1 to 10"?
 
Old May 6, 2007 | 03:07 PM
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It is when you tell them you rate the pain a 10, with 10 being the worst. The Doctor then pokes or pulls where it hurts and the f@#ker makes the pain even worse. You then learn maybe your original pain was only an 8.
 
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should have been going faster
 
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