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- From: pvmason@cco.caltech.edu (Peter V. Mason)
- Newsgroups: ca.driving
- Subject: Re: Driver's License Test Question
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:53:00 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <43008@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan2.160052.1370@pro-palmtree.socal.com> markp@pro-palmtree.socal.com (Mark Panitz) writes:
- >>if you are apporaching a school bus with its red lights flashings, what do
- >>you do?
- >>A. go around the bus
- >>B. stop and wait for the red lights to stop flashing,
- >>C. make a u-turn and go another way?
- >
- I have been puzzled for many years by the fact that schoolbus drivers almost
- never use the flashing red lights. Obviously the reason for the light is
- to protect the little tykes who are so hyper about getting out of school that
- they don't look where they are going. I think this a good idea, and
- in many states they are always used. Why not California? Any schoolbus
- drivers on the net? Any CHP?
-
- On another topic, I tried to find out what the legal consequences of crossing
- a solid white line are. I searched the driver's manual and the CVC carefully
- and found nothing. I finally called the CHP and was told by an officer that
- there is no legal meaning. You can cross freely.
-
- You are required to drive within a lane, and
- maybe you could be cited for stradding such a line.
-
- Peter Mason
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