Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <13215@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 89 04:01:09 GMT
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>>   `You are welcome to move in ahead of me now');
>You can also flip your lights on and off

If you watch trucks and/or buses at night (and in the day, but it's
not as obvious), you'll notice that toggling headlights is the
convention for "you're passed me now, it is safe to change back
into my lane" i.e. at night, the overtaken truck will turn off
its headlights (leaving all other lights on of course) and the
overtaking truck will change back into that lane.  Then the
overtaking truck will flash some lights, often marker or four way
lights, to say thank you.

As for being able to go "10 or even 15 km/h" over the warning limit
on ramps - the real challenge is trying to double the warning limit,
though this gets a little harder when the yellow sign says "80" :-)