Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: David Meyers
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00

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Kiki <tigress@havoc.gtf.org> writes:

> In rec.autos.driving David Meyers <dmeyers@panix.com> wrote:

> : Trip plates suck.
> 
> Um, I think this is too black and white... the problem is not that they
> suck, but there are areaas where timing lights is better, and areas where
> trip plates work out a lot better.

Nope.  They simply suck.  There are too many vehicles which
don't set them off.  If they always worked (ie. always detect
motorcycles, always detect cars waiting at lights (ie. not
placed too far back, etc)), it might become a shade of grey
thing versus timing.  But as long as they are so miserably
unreliable, I can unhesitatingly say that they suck always.

--d

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From: David Meyers <dmeyers@panix.com>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/29
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