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Mark Brader:
The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. Jesper Lauridsen: You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? Not necessarily, if your line of view includes cars moving both ways. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "However, 0.02283% failure might be better than 50% | failure, depending on your needs." --Norman Diamond My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:23:16 +0000 (UTC), Jesper Lauridsen wrote in post :
: On 2009-02-20, Mark Brader wrote: The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? Now I know why some US driving licences aren't "valid" in Europe. -- Tim C. |
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:23:37 -0600, Mark Brader wrote in post :
: Mark Brader: The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. Jesper Lauridsen: You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? Not necessarily, if your line of view includes cars moving both ways. The ones where red lights are visible are facing away from you. The ones with white lights visible are facing towards you. Is it different in the USA ? -- Tim C. |
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:07:51 +0000, Pentaxman wrote in post :
: Jesper Lauridsen wrote: The last thing to be mentioned is that this system offers one significant advantage over the one used in Europe and on some American cars, where all turn signals are yellow. When it's dark and you see a turn signal flashing some distance ahead of you, if the rear-facing turn signals are red, then you know immediately whether this one is on a car facing toward you or not. You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? those hummer things have orange lights across the top front, so i would guess in US its quite hard to tell from lights quite what you are looking at Aided by the fact that the drivers are pretty unsure which way they're going as well? -- Tim C. |
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:15:40 +0000, Pentaxman wrote in post :
: "Tim C." wrote: those hummer things have orange lights across the top front, so i would guess in US its quite hard to tell from lights quite what you are looking at Aided by the fact that the drivers are pretty unsure which way they're going as well? and its so wide its on both sides of the road! :-) Like boats, do they have different coloured lights on either side ? -- Tim C. |
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:18:59 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
: Like boats, do they have different coloured lights on either side ? Big buoys toys? grone! -- Tim C. |
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Pentaxman wrote:
"Tim C." wrote: You can't tell this by the big white headlights versus the small red rear lights? Now I know why some US driving licences aren't "valid" in Europe. I think the US test is pretty basic There is no "US" test. Each state has its own. |
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