From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 05:58:11 PDT
In NJ, everyone just rushed into the circle with few
giving way. people would cut across from the inside
lane when thier exit would come up.
Rick
--- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
> Traffic circles seem to work fine, in European
> countries at least. I
> noticed that traffic seems to be able to get in and
> out totally safe if the
> vehicle "In the circle" has the right of way.
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
> To: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>; "Military
> Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 7:44 AM
> Subject: [BULK] Re: [MV] WWII DC3
>
>
> > 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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