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G0TEZ > TODAY 20.11.11 23:04l 55 Lines 1922 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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This one puzzles me because most countries in Europe do not have an amber
light before GO. I.E. the lights just change from stop to go and people
hit their accelerators hard. They very often pip the driver in front if he
doesn't accelerate hard enough.
I have never been to the USA but have seen their lights on films and they
all seem to be the same.
To your average Brit, this sort of thing is more annoying than having to
drive on the 'wrong' side of the road. Our lights go RED, RED + AMBER,
GREEN, AMBER,RED.
When I first went over the channel, I had been told that French drivers
were all mad and to take care around them. I found quite the reverse. Just
the sight of a GB plate on the rear left of a vehicle was enoughto terrify
the average French driver, especially on the fast,packed Boulevard
peripherique which circles Paris.
When taking off from traffic lights i found that the best thing was to
pull away sensibly and ignore the shrill hooting from behind.
Maybe one day, other countries will have a RED + AMBER so that you can let
the clutch in and release the handbrake (or whatever it is they do on
automatic American cars).
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> Nov 20, 1923:
> Garrett Morgan patents three-position traffic signal
>
> On this day in 1923, the U.S. Patent Office grants Patent No.
> 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman Garrett Morgan
> for his three-position traffic signal. Though Morgan's was not
> the first traffic signal (that one had been installed in London
> in 1868), it was an important innovation nonetheless: By having a
> third position besides just "Stop" and "Go," it regulated
> crossing vehicles more safely than earlier signals had.
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73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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