"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message 
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>>> Doesn't amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so"?
>>
>>   I thought it meant 'Go' if it's safe to do so?
>
> That's what green means.

    Heh, well I know that. I was thinking of the flashing amber down to 
green, not the solid amber up to red.


> IME though, amber usually means "speed up to make sure you can cross the 
> line before it goes red" :-)

   LOL. Yeah, I see enough of them.

    ~Steve~

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Invisible wrote:
> My favourite are the people who turn the corner, and then give just one 
> flash of their indicators *after* completing the turn. WTF?

Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signals.

> Sure. But some people seem to take amber as "speed up now", and red as 
> "floor it!"

Not so much around here, because almost all the lights will respond to 
you being there, which is nice.

My peeves include "use the steering wheel to turn, and the brakes to 
slow down. When someone slows in front of you, it's OK for you to slow 
too, and you don't have to drive into the oncoming traffic to avoid 
doing so."

Plus, people, it's rush-hour, not Nascar. See those 3000 people in front 
of you? They too would all like to squeeze past on the shoulder.

And, if you're going more than 50MPH, there should be enough room 
between you and the person in front of you that someone could parallel 
park there.

> But seriously, every day when we get home, by dad has to drive round 
> this green car parked on the corner, partially obstructing my dad's 
> drive entrance. 

That's why you carry a valve stem remover with you.  Or, in the immortal 
words of Bob, "Ha ha, you're out of spare tires. You loose."

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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St. wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message 
> news:49199a4d$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> Doesn't amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so"?
>>>   I thought it meant 'Go' if it's safe to do so?
>> That's what green means.
> 
>     Heh, well I know that. I was thinking of the flashing amber down to 
> green, not the solid amber up to red.
> 
> 

flashing amber down to green????
never heard of it

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Tom Austin wrote:
> flashing amber down to green????
> never heard of it

In some countries, they put green+yellow means it's about to go red, and 
red+yellow means it's about to go green. Sounds dangerous to me, 
doubly-so if it really means you are allowed to go thru on red+yellow.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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St. wrote:

>> Doesn't amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so"?
> 
>    I thought it meant 'Go' if it's safe to do so?

It may of course depend on which *country* you're in. (Isn't the 
Internet wonderful?)

For example, in the UK, the light sequence is

   Green
   Amber
   Red

   Red + Amber
   Green

   etc.

But in France, the sequence appears to be

   Green
   Red

   Amber
   Green

As in, the lights are green, and they just suddenly go straight to red, 
with no amber stage in the middle. But when turning back, they go 
through amber first. Very odd... I'd imagine the driving rules are 
differnet too.

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Invisible wrote:
> In the interests of public service, I'd like to point out the following 
> small details:


My favorite is when your light turns green
which means that the other traffic must have been red for 3-4 seconds
yet cars are still continuing to go through the intersection trying to 
'beat' the red.


Another is when you are going to make a right turn and almost hit the 
guy that's been driving on the shoulder for 1/4 mile to make his right turn.


Tom

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Tom Austin wrote:

> My favorite is when your light turns green
> which means that the other traffic must have been red for 3-4 seconds
> yet cars are still continuing to go through the intersection trying to 
> 'beat' the red.

Yeah. Of course, the only thing they're likely to "beat" is the bodywork 
of their precious sports car when it smashes into another vehicle.

> Another is when you are going to make a right turn and almost hit the 
> guy that's been driving on the shoulder for 1/4 mile to make his right 
> turn.

I don't know about other countries, but here that kind of thing is 
illegal. (Not that this stops anybody...)

I don't know why, but people who drive expensive sports cars seem to 
have the mentality that it's their road and everybody else is required 
to get out of *their* way, and that the rules to not apply to them. As 
if the world is put there for their own personal convinience or 
something... grr!

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>> > you need to make an effort to not do this.
> 
>> Split infinitive. "an effort not to do this".
> 
> http://www.grammarphobia.com/grammar.html

But with "not" it does sound bad.

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These all are on my pet driving peeves list. Oh, and:

Incorrect contraction use in #5. ;-)

Jim

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:40:44 +0100, scott wrote:

> Doesn't amber mean "stop if it's safe to do so"? ie no need to do an
> emergency stop if there is someone behind you.

Red means "stop". Green means "go".  Yellow means "go faster".

Jim

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