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Article #1903Re: flashing lights to pass
From: Iakovos Stamoulis
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
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Joshua Turner (shua@umich.edu) wrote: : dv wrote: : > : > nkibe wrote: : > > : > > >I sometimes hear complaints that people are angry when someone comes : > > >up behind them, flashes their lights to indicate their desire to pass. : > : > This is sometimes due to the way people flash to pass. 90% of the time : > it has happened to me, I was passing a guy on a two lane road, some guy : > comes up at high velocities (usually 20-30 mph over the speed limit), : > gets about a foot, sometimes less, to the point where I can't even see : > his lights, flashes me, and I guess expects me to 1)turn into the : > concrete barrier on my left, 2)turn right into the guy I'm passing, or : > 3)floor it. You better believe I'm gonna bitch if people are going to : > drive like a**holes who think they own the road. If they're couteous Hey, I thought that when you overtake you floor-it anyway, if you don't then you are obviously obstructing the guy behind you. Also, we don't own the road, just a small part of it. The one ahead ;-) Jac Alfa-Romeo 146ti
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,20dbb360710fe629 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,36b770190454bf4d X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,36b770190454bf4d X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: tepa1@central.susx.ac.uk (Iakovos Stamoulis) Subject: Re: flashing lights to pass Date: 1997/02/10 Message-ID: <5dn5fc$nhq@infa.central.susx.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 217847376 references: <32eddac6.64522299@news.pipeline.com> <5cieer$l1@barsoom.digex.net> <32f47731.51822517@news.pipeline.com> <5d54v5$oqg@newstoo.worldbank.org> <32F6488B.4FC5@lehigh.edu> <32F6A17A.3BFB@umich.edu> followup-to: dc.driving,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving organization: University of Sussex newsgroups: dc.driving,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving