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From: emrath@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Blinking Green Traffic Light - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 05:30:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 05:30:46 1983
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uiuccsb!emrath    Aug 20 03:35:00 1983

Two comments:
1) I NEVER move a foot from the brake to the clutch, only from brake to gas.
2) I was just on vacation and did some driving in California (I'm from
   Illinois). Two problems: a) They have right turn on red out there,
   just like here, but NOBODY stops first. You get seen by a cop doing that
   here and its a moving violation. I came to an almost full stop and
   the guy behind just about re-ended me. b) All the traffic signals are
   on the opposite side of the intersection. Here, I'm used to pulling up
   to the signal. At night in Nevada, I once almost found myself sitting
   in the MIDDLE of an intersection waiting for a red light.
   Moral: Variable traffic conventions (like blinking greens and yellows
	before greens) are a bad idea.