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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: ca.driving
- Subject: Re: Red light at 3AM - moral question?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.025352.16930@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 02:53:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.202916.27650@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> <thurlow.724011426@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec10.205530.5751@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <1992Dec10.205530.5751@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> sharen@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Sharen A. Rund) writes:
- >In article <thurlow.724011426@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >>I'm a cyclist. I ride a five-mile stretch to work and back on temperate
- >>days, and take longer rides on weekends. My bicycle _ususally_ has enough
- >>mass to trip the vehicle sensors under most of the intersections I ride
- >>through, but sometimes I need a car to help with that. However, there are
- >
- >again, I consider myself a defensive driver, and if there were a cyclist
- >that didn't have enough weight to trip the light, I'd slowly move forward
- >and, the cyclist being a defensive cyclist, would probably be aware of
- >what I was doing and move over slightly so I could trip the light for
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- Minor nit: the vehicle sensors (around here, anyway) are metal detectors
- (magnetic?). They don't detect weight or mass, they need a certain amount
- of metal to trip them. When adjusted properly, they'll detect motorcycles
- just fine.
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- Alan Denney # aland@informix.com # {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
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- "The driver says, 'One more cup of coffee and I'll be all right...'
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