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- Newsgroups: hsv.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!cherokee!greg
- From: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Arrows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190043.15743@infonode.ingr.com>
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- Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Reply-To: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
- Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:00:43 GMT
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- larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) wrote:
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- > > reflectors that outline the arrows ... on I-565 ...
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- > In town where the roads are lighted anyway, they are probabily
- > redundant, but out in the country where the only light is from
- > headlights, the reflectors are handy. ... night when I needed to get
- > someplace in a big hurry. I found out that I could drive a lot faster
- > because my effective vision (ie knowing about curves in advance) was 9
- > doubled.
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- Are you referring to the reflectors that are in between the lanes?
- I like those too. The thing is, those reflectors around the arrows
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- rather than like ...
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- ... as they would appear from the air.
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- They don't relay any useful information to me.
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