Good folks,
Is there anyone else out there like me, who, when approaching a traffic
light that has just turned yellow,er, amber, finds they are first
checking the rear view mirror to see if the idiot behind them is
planning to stop, too? Too often, I continue through the light because
the jerk behind me is planning on going through regardless.
"Officer, I went through the light because I felt it was safer than
stopping".
Cheers,
Dave Houser
Bob Howard wrote:
>Do you remember when there were only two colors and the lights were set
>up to use only two bulbs inside the fixture, with an amber bulb hung
>underneath? It was simple enough, but red/green colorblind could not
>tell if the light he was seeing on top was red or green. Now that there
>are three lens per side, position of the light indicates its meaning too.
>Bob
>On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:05:22 -0400 Leckstein <bleckstein@monmouth.com>
>writes:
>
>>>>>Yellow means 'stop unless unsafe to do so'. Red means 'stop in
>>>>>
>>>>any event'.
>>>>
>>I love this discussion. The above is what I was taught, except I am
>>so old that I was taught that the color of the middle light is "amber"
>>
>not
>
>>yellow. And in NYC they had only two colors, red and green (with some
>>overlap) Of course 5th Avenue had traffic signals back then with
>>
>bronze Mercury
>
>>Statutes on top... now I have really deviated from the subject.
>>
>>Mike
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