OT: Petrol consumption

It was in the "Rules of the Road" when I got my license ('68).

I moved out of IL in '74 (though I'm back visiting this week).

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  Keith

In daylight, the glare isn't a factor. The vehicle can be seen at or before the parking lights become visible.

Not under some conditions, such as driving into the sun. Can you think of a circumstance in which running lights of any sort would obscure a vehicle? Most of the time, wearing a seat belt isn't worth the trouble of buckling it. We wear them for the exceptions.

Jerry

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As far as I know, it is illegal in California independent of daylight and glare.

-- glen

(I wrote)

OK, I was in IL from 1981 to 1989. I got my first license in CA in

1974. It was on our official looking practice tests in drivers ed.

-- glen

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As I understand it, for buses the trouble of buckling, plus the added delay in getting out in an emergency is more than the advantage in those exceptions, so they are not required for buses. (Except for the driver.) Some people actually do the statistics.

-- glen

I don't need a safety belt, because I don't pull G's in my car. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Not yet, anyway. ;-)

Are you expecting me to suddenly change and start driving like an idiot? ;-)

Just in case you're wondering, I think I'd have to say I don't drive a car like I post USENET posts. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

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No. Being a motorcycle rider, I expect everybody else to drive like an idiot.

In '68 IL had just taken out (but was still in the practice tests):

Q: What do you do if someone takes your right-of-way? A: Let 'em have it.

Seems people couldn't take a joke.

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  Keith

in article pbadnR7T_72R1V_ZnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@rcn.net, Jerry Avins at snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote on 07/22/2006 11:45:

that's a lot of juice to go through the wiper switch. what about different wiper speeds? or the intermittent wiper switch? what about the 0.6 volt or

5% voltage drop of the diodes? (are the lights just as bright? are the diodes hot with all of those amps?)

oops. you answered ome of my questions. i still think the current used for headlights is a helluva lot more than the wipers and would expect the wiper switch to be a little stressed if the headlight current was passed through it.

making it automatic with any non-intermittent setting of the wiper switch (by use of separate switch poles) is a good idea (that i thunk of soon after learning of such laws). perhaps there would be cases of parked cars with the wiper on that this would be an inconvenience. sometimes such hardwired enforcement of the law is resisted/resented. there was one year in the 70s that some cars would not allow starting the car without all required seat belts (those in which the seat sensors in non-driver seats senses something heavy sitting in the seat) were buckled. then the next year the annoying buzzer/tone would sound for the entire time such a seat belt was unbuckled. i now of some guys that disconnected that beeper/buzzer.

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

There were two headlight relays: one for high beams, one for low. My car at that time had them too; If you listened closely with the motor off, you could hear them. (I bet my present car does too. The headlight switch is a little twist-it thing on the end of the turn-signal arm.) The diodes were three-amp rectifiers, axial lead not quite a quarter-inch diameter. I'm sure you know the kind.

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The problem was solved by time-delay circuits with hold-offs longer than the period of the intermittent wiper setting.

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Jerry

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How many negative Gs when you hit a parked car at 20 mph? A deer at 50?

Jerry

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Relays.

Driving into the sun in foggy conditions?

I'm talking about the equivalent of the situation of pretending to fasten your seatbelt.

I don't hit parked cars or deers. I look in front of my own car first, and if there's something there already, I don't go there. People who are too stupid to recognize even that little factiod probably don't deserve to live.

I drive as if I'm in one of these:

Cheers! Rich

Well, right, exactly. That's what I do. Essentially, when I'm in control of a moving vehicle, I put myself on Red Alert - EVERYTHING is a threat.

One time, I was driving around with my little brother and a few friends, and one of my brother's friends said, "Rich, you're driving like a 50-year old man!" I was about to 'splain, when I realized, "Well, WTF - I _AM_ a

50-year-old man!" :-)

Cheers! Rich

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:19:36 +0000, robert bristow-johnson wrote: ...

Most of the people I heard about just buckled the belts and sat on them. :-)

Cheers! Rich