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Skip Elliott Bowman > wrote: >"JohnH" > wrote in message >> >> Same here; I usually get the jump on the jerky drivers who haul ass to a >> red light. > >I do this too. It works great on timed lights, but hey. Some folks just >have to get to the next light before anyone else. Racing to a red light also works with actuated lights if nobody is yet waiting at the sensor. Getting to the red light quicker will get me through the intersection sooner. -- John Carr ) |
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Scott en Aztl=E1n wrote: > While driving my pickup truck to the hardware store yesterday, I got > temporarily stuck behind a Sloth Coaster driving an SUV. The posted > speed limit was 55 MPH, but because there was a red light a half mile > down the road, this SC was puttering along at about 35 MPH. Why aren't you laying on the horn to wake the clueless idiot up? |
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Scott en Aztlán wrote: > While driving my pickup truck to the hardware store yesterday, I got > temporarily stuck behind a Sloth Coaster driving an SUV. The posted > speed limit was 55 MPH, but because there was a red light a half mile > down the road, this SC was puttering along at about 35 MPH. - Why aren't you laying on the horn to wake the clueless idiot up? Because that would be "road rage", and you could be ticketed for it. -Dave |
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In article >,
John F. Carr > wrote: >In article . net>, >Skip Elliott Bowman > wrote: >>"JohnH" > wrote in message >>> >>> Same here; I usually get the jump on the jerky drivers who haul ass to a >>> red light. >> >>I do this too. It works great on timed lights, but hey. Some folks just >>have to get to the next light before anyone else. > >Racing to a red light also works with actuated lights if nobody is >yet waiting at the sensor. Getting to the red light quicker will >get me through the intersection sooner. Not always. Many sensor actuated lights merely have the sensor make a request to give a green phase at a specified time. For example, suppose the minor street is allowed a green every minute, but a green is only given if the sensor indicates someone is there. So if you are approaching on the minor street a few seconds before the light is allowed to turn green, reaching the sensor as soon as you can may save you a minute. But if the light just turned red, racing to it won't help unless it would otherwise take you a minute to get there. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy J. Lee Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. No warranty of any kind is provided with this message. |
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In article <mo%Ce.165802$_o.55681@attbi_s71>, C. E. White wrote:
> I am sure you are the qualified to make the distinction. Of course in your > mind anyone who is slowing you in the least is a sloth. Here is how I judge a driver as a "sloth": A driver slows me down needlessly while I am using my bicycle or executed any driving task slower than I do on bicycle under the same conditions, the driver is a sloth. In other words, if there is a turn that I take at 20mph on my bicycle and a driver takes it at 5mph, that driver is sloth. |
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In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:44:09 GMT, "Skip Elliott Bowman" > wrote: > >>> Same here; I usually get the jump on the jerky drivers who haul ass to a >>> red light. >> >>I do this too. It works great on timed lights > > ...Which do not exist here in SoCal in any great numbers. And therein > lies the flaw in the whole Coaster concept: there absolutely no way to > tell from half a mile away when the light is going to change - yet > these Sloth Coasters smugly hold up traffic and think they're smarter > than everybody else. What tools! I can predict how sensor driven lights will operate. Especially the ones I often deal with. If I can see other vehicles at the light, I can reasonably predict the timing of the green signal rather often. |
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In article >, 223rem wrote:
> Had you not had your left turn signal on, the driver in front of > you would have sped up to allow you to catch the green. > > (yeah right) Exactly. I've had other drivers stop short and deliberately block enterance to turn lanes. Even honking the horn to get them to move forward into the 3-4 car length gap in front of them didn't work. |
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Brent P wrote:
> I can predict how sensor driven lights will operate. Especially the > ones I often deal with. If I can see other vehicles at the light, I > can reasonably predict the timing of the green signal rather often. Let's face it, Brent: you have the additional advantage in this respect of also being a cyclist. When I learnt to drive in rural North Devon three decades back I didn't have to deal with very many traffic lights. When I went to university in Manchester and took to the roads on two wheels I quickly learnt to read the lights well ahead. Will the light be green when I get to it? Should I ease off to catch the next (or next-but-one) early green? Or pedal like stink to catch a late green? Such considerations got me reading the road alright ... |
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In article >, Robert Briggs wrote:
> Let's face it, Brent: you have the additional advantage in this > respect of also being a cyclist. That's probably very true. I never really know a road until I use it with a bicycle. Also much of my driving is based on bicycling experience. I also realize something from what you wrote. Tonight I knew the condition of a traffic light ahead, one blocked by a hill before I even saw it. The couple of cars I could see was enough to tell me it was green and wouldn't be green long enough for me make it from my present location. This is the same light where the first time I approached it from this direction I did a downhill sprint and it went red on me. I slammed on the brakes, locked up the rear removed a patch of rubber from my new rear tire. I also found that flexible bumper filler does a good job of repairing such damage |
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