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Article #8423Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
From: Brian Gordon
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00
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In article <7sp72a$jgs$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>, Jake <e_account1@yahoo.com> wrote: >Has anyone heard of the new traffic lights that turn red if you break the >speed limit between lights and remain green if you follow the speed limit? >What do you think? > > No, but I have seen timed lights do something similar. I used to start my commute on a street whose lights were timed for 45MPH traffic. If I was going in real early (maybe 5:30) and traffic was minimal, I could cruise at 45 and never touch the brake. At 7, with lots of traffic, everyone whizzed by me at 60, so they stopped at like every other light. Since they were stopped ahead of my, my constant 45 didn't help -- the people who has passed me were all stopped and I had to wait for them to start up again (racing to stop at the light two blocks down, of course). If everyone had driven at 45, it would have been a dream drive. Maybe that's what you are seeing. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian Gordon -->briang@netcom.com<-- Brian_Gordon@whitelight.com | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: briang@netcom.com (Brian Gordon) Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights Date: 1999/09/29 Message-ID: <7srmgl$nor@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 530511344 References: <7sp72a$jgs$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> Organization: NETCOM / MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Sep 28 7:29:09 PM CDT 1999 NNTP-Posting-User: briang Newsgroups: misc.consumers,rec.autos.driving,ca.driving