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Article #950Re: Car electronics projects
From: Jeff Winslow
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1989 18:35
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1989 18:35
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In article <5374@mtgzy.att.com> rlf@mtgzy.att.com (r.l.fletcher) writes: >This one has long been a pet idea of mine also, but I would actually >replace my tail-lights and permanently mount the display in place >of them. In normal use they would handle the stop and turn signals >with some appropriate characters, say << and >> for turning and >WHOA!! for stopping. Cute idea, but I can react a lot faster to just a couple of bright red lights going on than I can react trying to distinguish one set of red characters from another. I suspect a lot of other people are the same way. We must have all seen the same movie, or something. I thought of the car- display idea too - but figured somebody had already done it. I was right about that, anyway. Jeff Winslow
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!midas!jeffw From: jeffw@midas.STS.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Car electronics projects Message-ID: <4730@midas.STS.TEK.COM> Date: 24 Jul 89 18:35:00 GMT References: <768@xroads.UUCP> <20556@cup.portal.com> <1170@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <5374@mtgzy.att.com> Reply-To: jeffw@midas.STS.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 17