From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 05:44:54 PDT
If you really want something confusing try having a
circle. Pretty much full speed into the circle free
for all.
NJ started taking the cricles out due to the number of
accidents and putting in 4 way intersections.
Rick
--- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> Peoples driving habits beats anything I've ever
> seen, at least where I go.
> NOBODY seems to know that when you come upon a multi
> lane roadway and make a
> turn that the law requires you to make your turn and
> remain in the closest
> lane to where you were UNTIL you can clearly check
> the traffic and THEN you
> may make your signal and safely move over one lane
> at a time until you get
> to where you want to be in traffic. That and the
> fact that NOBODY seems to
> know what a STOP sign means,
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dgrev" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] WWII DC3
>
>
> > Jeff
> >
> >> The planes I rent have all the latest GPS,
> weather nav
> >> garbage, personally I have no use for it. I like
> to
> >> follow the landscape, roads, terrain, turn on the
> NDB
> >> maybe, even try to avoid using VOR's but in a
> pinch I
> >> will, Kinda scary flying commercial these days
> knowing
> >> some young buck up there has his training from
> playing
> >> nintendo!!
> >
> > I take it that in the US you have the same
> abreviations
> > as we do (our system is based on yours) so when
> all else
> > fails it's back to the basics:
> >
> > VFR = Visually Follow Roads.
> >
> > IFR = I Follow Roads.
> >
> > It certainly does make you wonder how the world
> will
> > survive if there is ever an EMP pulse.
> > Bang will go all the ground based nav aids. I have
> no idea if the
> > satellites are hardened?
> >
> > The way things are these days, even your fridge
> and stove have electronics
> > and will be fried!
> > Same with Solargisers too.
> >
> > Of late, there appears to be a lot of ancillary
> military
> > equipment (ie, base vehicles, computers etc) that
> are
> > civilian spec. They won't be much good either.
> >
> > > Kinda scary flying commercial these days knowing
> > > some young buck up there has his training from
> playing
> > > nintendo!!
> >
> > There has been some stuff on TV of late that the
> Europeans
> > have noticed that the Nintendo generation make for
> lousy
> > drivers, not better ones. You don't get 3 lives in
> the real
> > world. Thus they are having to start driver
> training in schools
> > with lots of crash pics to get it through to the
> kids that cars
> > are not "virtual" devices and do obey neutonian
> laws of motion.
> > Not that anyone is taught history anymore........
> >
> > Regards
> > Doug
> >
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