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Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Brian Gordon
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.
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From: briang@netcom.com (Brian Gordon)
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/29
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