Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Stuart Smith
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00

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David Meyers wrote in message ...
>Kiki <tigress@havoc.gtf.org> writes:
>
>> In rec.autos.driving David Meyers <dmeyers@panix.com> wrote:
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>> : 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.


That would be a personal opinion I assume.

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From: "Stuart Smith" <stuartsmith1@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/29
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