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Re: flashing lights to pass

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From: Iakovos Stamoulis
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
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From: tepa1@central.susx.ac.uk (Iakovos Stamoulis)
Subject: Re: flashing lights to pass
Date: 1997/02/10
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