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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Shifting w/o clutch
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 20:12:10 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Sep25.053002.25655@colorado.edu> drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:


>>And if the hydraulic system leaks?
>
>What if your hydraulic brake system leaks?  A hydraulic 
>clutch system is very similar to the hydraulic brakes,
>and should be about as reliable.  

If the hydraulic brake system leaks, you start to notice a marked
decrease in braking ability, and the pedal 'sinks' when steady
pressure is applied.  You then go and get it fixed before you get in
real trouble.
With the hydraulic clutch, I suppose the ability
to disengage the clutch would be impaired.  But you wouldn't notice
this, as partially disengaging the clutch works.  Eventually you would
be unable to disengage the clutch and would be in the same position as
the guy with the broken clutch cable.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
(not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
From: stresres@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Vanetten)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Street Dancing
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:07:45 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

Well, just to let you know, yes, there is still alot of this going on, but
due to the fact that it is getting cold and alot of the people are away
at school, things have died down alot.  The last I was involved in was with
a 72' 340 Roadrunner.  I helped the guy build and put in the motor, so I 
guess I have myself to thank for it being so #$%%#&# FAST!!  Oh, I have
an 87' stang GT; 3.27s, ram air, hurst, R compound tires.  I got him on the
low end, by about 2 lengths, then about the 100 mph mark, he pulled me hard.
Before this I had 2.73s, and we were neck in neck until around 90 or so.
The RR is 30 over, with a big cam, 71' X-heads with mild a mild P&P job,
10.5 to 1 compression, headers, 904 automatic, and a 2.96 rear end.

The next time we will meet, he will have 3.55s, so I am looking for something 
to save my neck!
 
The area I am in is Mid-north Indiana, somewhere around Lafayette.
Other things that have been run around this area are a 68' Roadrunner, (now
down for winter rebuild...with the Mopar Performance 500hp 440 kit!!!OUCH!!),
a Very nice 68' 327 Camaro, whom the cops followed out when he left to run
late model Mustang.  They tried to ambush them after the run, but he got away, only to get caught at
the parking lot by White Castle!  They came back to brag!!  Talk about dumb!
A 66' 327 Vette, a 58' Vette with a 327, and then of course all the little
guys.  The V-6 and hot 4 cyl group is kind of big among my friends.

Well, I hope I have given someone what they are looking for...And not teched
out all of the rest of you!  The storys are plentiful, but my time is not, so
talk to you all later.  (Comments anyone?, critique?...)

Mark


  There is little truth in advertising, more so when applied to Street Racing.
From: michalj@fuw.edu.pl (Michal Jankowski)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Here's a good law for you...
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:42:28 GMT
	<1992Sep24.154810.10059@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
	<BvAwur.LD0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BvB5s1.7q@inews.Intel.COM>
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.

>>>>> On 28 Sep 92 21:45:36 GMT, jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) said:

John> Nope.  The reason is that it's impossible to park against the
John> direction of traffic without actually driving against the
John> direction of traffic at some point.

So what? If I'm permitted to drive against the direction of traffic (AtDoT)
while passing, what is wrong in permitting me to do the same while
parking? 
Besides, simple parallel parking involves some driving AtDoT 8-)

   Michal J.
From: pvmason@cco.caltech.edu (Peter V. Mason)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: How Sweden switched (was: Re: on which side of the road do you drive)
Date: 28 Sep 92 04:49:47 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep25.203611.5815@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.162751.3501@pictel.com> harling@pictel.com (Dan Harling) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep24.144530.15858@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>>>      Back in the 1960's, I lived in Sweden (which then drove on the
>>>left - they switched near the end of my stay), and drove several times
>>>to Norway, which then and still drives on the right...
>
>>>      A more interesting story is how Sweden switched over to the
>>>right....
>
>>Yeah, I'll bet they spent some serious money just turning the road
>>signs around and/or moving them to the other side of the road!
>>Daniel A. Harling                        (harling@pictel.com)
>
>     Well, it was a lot more complicated than that, involving a
>national mobilization little short of war.

(Much description of process)

 
>     The accident rate in the year following the change was
>significantly *lower* than the year preceding it - a testimony to the
>education campaign.
>
>							Peter Trei
>							ptrei@mitre.org

I heard that before the changeover, most of the accidents in Sweden 
and Norway occurred within ten miles of the border.  Maybe no crossovers
=> fewer confused drivers => fewer accidents

By far the worst accidents we read about when we lived in England
were near the ferry towns.  Typically, a large truck would come off the 
ferry, get on the correct side of the road, get moving, get confused
(e.g. when leaving a motorway) and start driving at high speed on
the wrong i.e. right side of the road) Meets car => Headline "Family
of Six Killed in Head-on Collision with Lorry".  

Most amusing story (not to my friend, an American who had his rental
car totalled). He turned into the driveway of one of these rent-a-castle
estates that the landed gentry show to tourists to support their local taxman. 
Met a car
on the wrong side of the road moving at high speed.  He was on
the correct, i.e., left side of the road.  The native English lady who
headed him had apparently just been fired and was leaving the castle
in a blind fury, not knowing which side of the she was on. No injuries,
fortunately, but my friend drove *very* cautiously after that.

Peter Mason
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: cottle@b11.b11.ingr.com (Tim Cottle)
Subject: Re: Spotted in CT (was: tips for Indiana, Ohio ?)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:59:56 GMT

tonym@world.std.com (Tony Matt) writes:

>What I did see just last Thursday was an MX-6 as part of a trap.  It was
>crossing from the median strip to bag someone, while a Crown Vic was on 
>the right-hand shoulder across from it.  That's the first non-Big-Three-
>badged vehicle I've seen used by any State Police.  Perhaps they got 
>approval to buy the MX-6 because it's assembled in the US.

>Massachusetts, meanwhile, seems to be predominantly Crown Vics and Mustangs,
>with a few (previous generation) Caprices and Ford vans in the mix.


Conneticut (more or fewer "t"s and "n"s as needed) does use MX-6s as unmarked
pursuit vehicles.  A few years ago they narrowed their choices to the Fnord
Probe or the MX-6, which happen to be built in the same plant with the same
engine, drivetrain and chassis.  The deciding factor was that the doors of the
MX-6 are slightly shorter than those of the Probe.  When you are opening the
doors of a two door auto along a busy highway, that extra two inches can make
a difference.


 --

 |  Timothy A. Cottle                  |                                    |
 |  Workstation Systems Development    |     Gegen Dummheit kaempfen        | 
 |  Intergraph Corp.                   |     Goetter selbst vergebens.      |
 |  Huntsville, AL  35894-0001         |                                    |
 |  cottle@gman.b11.ingr.com           |                    --Schiller      |
From: mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Here's a good law for you...
Date: 29 Sep 1992 07:33:03 -0400
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Vienna, Va.
NNTP-Posting-Host: gilligan.east.sun.com

In article <BvB5s1.7q@inews.Intel.COM> jreece@sousa.intel.com writes:
>
>Nope.  The reason is that it's impossible to park against the direction of
>traffic without actually driving against the direction of traffic  at some
>point.
>
>-- 

Well, hell...

That doesn't make sense, because I had to drive against traffic
just the other day, when I had to chase a troop of Boy Scouts off
the sidewalk, into a grocery store. :-)

Seriously, what about left turns? To me, it's kind of the same
principle. I have to cross the oncoming lane in order to get into
my driveway..

-- Mike

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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: jdrout@scott.skidmore.edu (Jonathan T Drout (smile))
Subject: Re: Truckers ARE professionals
Organization: Skidmore College, lost in fog and snow
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:36:10 GMT


This spring I took a trip down to Virginia in my MR2 (85). I left a
bit after midnight on a Thursday, and found the road nicely populated
with trucks.  I was tooling along at about 70-80, and most of the
trucks were running mid-sixties.  As the night wore on, I encountered
higher speeeds.  Whenever a truck passed me I gave him the lights off
sign, and soon enough all the trucks I was passing were doing the same
for me.  My car is small, and without the best rearward vision.  At 85
I was hesitant to take my eyes away from the road to watch through the
c-pillars and find out when it was safe to remerge.  One trucker must
have said something over the cd, because soon enough all the trucks I
passed were signalling ME when it was safe to come in lane.  Later, in
the deep fog that rolled in to northern pennsylvania around 3:30, I
found the trucks following me pretty close.  I guess they could see
well because of my low lights and my fog lights.  Never did they
tailgate or push me around.  Their courtesy was impressive.  THose who
mock truck drivers  must be from NJ (my home state!) where truckers
get cut off and sometimes 'fight' back with tailgating and locking
people in to lanes.

		Jonathan

Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington)
Subject: Re: Tailgaters abound!
Reply-To: ilh@lcs.mit.edu
Organization: MIT/LCS Spoken Language Systems
	<ILH.92Sep24183027@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu> <j1=pm_f@lynx.unm.edu>
	<1992Oct2.210804.17317@access.digex.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:17:37 GMT

I was just making the point that if you leave a *large* gap, say twice
the safe distance, you *are* affecting others.  If a lot of others do
the same, the road will handle about half the throughput in cars/sec.
You won't affect latency (inversely related to speed), however, so you
might not notice it.  The trouble is that decreasing throughput can
cause major problems when the road is near its theoretical capacity.

On the other hand, driving extra close with stop-and-go will also
cause a decrease in throughput since sharp breaking will startle those
behind.  I'm not advocating this.  I thoroughly agree that driving
smoothly helps the traffic flow at nearly constant speed.

--

                                Lee Hetherington
                                ilh@lcs.mit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: SPEECH ON SPEEDING W/IMPUNITY
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:01:50 GMT


In article <1992Sep30.073858.24583@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> david@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (David Masters) writes:
>dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
>
>>I'm sure you'll get several other versions, but here's mine. FWIW, I 
>>haven't received a speeding ticket since 1982.
>
>My record is not quite as perfect, but nearly.
>
>>1. Always, always have a radar detector.
>
>In Australia, radar detectors were banned about 2 years ago. The
>queer thing is, I still haven't got a ticket. I now believe that the
>rest of the points are the most important. Keep you eyes open and
>pay attention. 
>
>I know that I haven't slowed down       :-)

My experience is the same. I have been driving since 1980, and never
owned a radar detector, yet after my first speeding ticket when I was
17, my record has been perfectly clean despite my penchant for driving
expediently. I attribute it simply to remaining alert while driving, and
practicing things similar to those listed by the earlier posters. I
never saw the need for a detector, since they're basically useless
against VASCAR (which we have in Illinois) and instant-on radar (since I
always try to drive with a large space cushion around my car, there
generally isn't a vehicle close enough in front of me to get zapped
first by an instant-on gun; thus, the first ping my detector would get
would be aimed at me).

I finally decided to get a radar detector (the V1). It got such a
glowing review I couldn't resist. It certainly won't hurt, and I *like*
the nice low insurance premiums on my muscle car and want to keep them that
way. ;-)

Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,sci.physics
From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
Subject: Re: LIDAR workings (was Re: Laser Jammer Sighting?)
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:19:45 GMT

In article <b=fp#md@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
>carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
>
>>x
>>The concept is simple: direct a IR beam at the LIDAR detector which
>>is of sufficient amplitude to swamp the "desired" signal, and which
>>is of appropriate frequency (measured at the receiver, so don't forget
>>your vehicle's motion) to read either <speed limit or a random
>>failure.
>>The bigger problem is in aiming your jammer at the LIDAR and doing so
>>fast enough to avoid all true readings.  A continous, wide-angle
>>beam will dothis.  
>>The remaining physics is relatively straightforward and doesn't differ
>>much from the radar equation used to build a radar jammer.
>
>Actually the physics are fundimentally different.  The LIDAR (the Laser 
>Atlanta unit at least) works by making a sequence of timed distance 
>measurements and computes speed from delta distance/delta time.  It does
>NOT use doppler in any manner.  
>
>I would imagine it would take a fairly powerful and pretty close to 
>(optical) frequency to jam the unit.  Doable but not trivial.  I'll
>know more in a couple of months when I get one in for evaluation.
>
>John
>
>-- 
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Ever since I heard about the laser speed-measuring unit, I have wondered how
it worked.  As described on our local evening news, the police shine a
single laser beam onto the car, and it reflects back to the unit [?]
How is that?  Surely most/all surfaces of the car are not angled such
as to give reflection straight back to the unit, and I would imagine
that the laser is a fairly narrow beam.  So, how does it work?

Just curious ...
[my Plymouth Horizon can scarcely go fast enough to speed,
so I have no need to jam the gizmo]

John
snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu
From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: tips for Indiana, Ohio ?
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:57:31 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <1992Oct5.172921.4595@cbfsb.cb.att.com> ashaw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (andrew.shaw) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.214926.16223@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
>>[In re unmarked Mustangs and Camaros]
>>gee, how nice that our tax dollars buy the police sports cars 
>> 
>Maybe some are seized under the "pre-trial asset-forfeiture program".
 
Nope. They're all brand new. The local newspaper posted the costs, and
they were not that high (for the Mustangs). The state police has not 
even acknowledged the fact that they're also using Camaros. 

I seem to recall that in the Boston area a few years ago they used
pre-trial asset forfeiture cars. I remember a netter being nailed by a
BAKERY VAN wielding a radar gun... Or at least using the bakery van
as a no-can-guess radar platform vehicle...

Spiros


-- 
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Software Technology, Delco Electronics       striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac.com
GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904      [A Different Kind of Disclaimer]
From: fields-doug@CS.YALE.EDU (Doug Fields)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: 55:  And Then There Were (Please Help)
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:43:11 GMT
Organization: Yale University, CS, New Haven, CT, Admiral's Account

In article <1992Sep27.200646.10875@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.191804.3309@photon.com> jbn@photon.photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
>>I thought that nine states still had 55:  Alaska and Delaware (with
>
>Pennsylvania, I think.

[WRT Penn having 65 mph speed limit.]

Definately not!!!

Pennsylvania has those beautiful green and yellow signs that let you know
that "Pennsylvania state speed limit STILL 55 MPH!!!"

Damn communist state. Just like CT.

Cheers,

Doug

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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: c.oneill@trl.oz.au (Chris O'Neill)
Subject: Re: SPEECH ON SPEEDING W/IMPUNITY
Organization: Telecom Australia Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:56:24 GMT

In article <BvI579.MJ7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:

>I get the impression that many people who have been raised on expressway
>driving just can't deal with a 2 lane road. They'll come up behind a
>slower vehicle and just stay there, rather than pass it. I'm sure part
>of the problem is the Geo Metros some of these folks drive; in this
>situation, most "practical" cars get downright UNpractical. ;-) ;-)

Most cars with a "practical" engine can have substantial acceleration as long
as the driver is knowledgeable about the revs it can handle.  The problem is
that most people are terrified of taking their engines anywhere near the red
line.  The fact that most cars don't have tachometers (and have automatic
gearboxes) proves that most people aren't interested in maximising the
performance-economy trade-off of their cars (although you can work out the red
line speed in each gear but I doubt if many people do this).

Chris O'Neill
Telecom Australia Research Labs
From: jason@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Jason Hanson)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: If You Want to Speed, Become a Cop?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 04:13:41 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu

In article <BvnH0v.J7G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>cooperate (in this and other ways). If you're a cop in Illinois, and you
>get pulled over for speeding in Wisconsin, it's best not to reveal the
>fact that you're an Illinois cop. Apparently WI cops will ALWAYS write IL

It's not just cops - Wisconsin cops will ALWAYS write EVERYONE.
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: SPEECH ON SPEEDING W/IMPUNITY
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:01:40 GMT


In article <Sep30.012800.40373@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
conser@CS.ColoState.EDU (glenn eldon conser) writes:
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>You should never pass anyone with a great amount of speed difference
>between your cars.  Why?  The innocent looking guy in that Caravan could be
>an off-duty cop with a pencil and a phone!

AHA!! So YOU'RE the infamous Doctor Bigone (Bi-GO-nay)!!! I *knew* it
had to be a nom de plume! ;-)

But seriously, another reason not to pass slower vehicles with too great
a speed difference is the danger factor. After all, it's not the speed
your travelling that makes for dangerous driving conditions, but the RELATIVE
speed between one vehicle and another. The closer your speed is to his,
the lower your relative speed and the more reaction time you will have
should he suddenly swerve to avoid taking out a 'possum.

Note that the relative velocity vs. danger curve is shaped like an
inverted bell - danger is high when relative velocity is close to zero,
as well, since when you pass someone at 1MPH speed difference you're
sitting next to them for mile after mile after mile, and are an easy
target for 'possum swerves. The best speed differential for passing is,
of course, in the middle somewhere. I usually maintain about a 5 - 10
MPH differential, which it more than enough at 65 MPH.
From: adamstr@cc.uvcc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: H. Ross Perot's proposed gas tax
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:15:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Oct6.141548.1
Organization: Utah Valley Community College

>   bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
> 
   [some stuff deleted....]

> Second, there's no guarantee that the funds collected will be used for
> deficit reduction. Remember the $1.25 spent for $1 collected equation?
>

This is one of my concerns. IMHO, i'd like to see the Federal Government pass
an amendment requiring a balanced budget and then _PROVE_ to us they can
live within their means for a few years before i'd be willing to have more
of my dollars sent on to Washington. Seems to me that sending more and more
of our hard earned dollars to Washington without having gotten Congress out
their current spending mindset is just throwing good money after bad....

just my $ 0.02 worth..  :-)
adamstr@cc.uvcc.edu
From: v069pff7@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (SNAKEYES)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: driving Route 90 in Ohio
Date: 2 Oct 92 01:27:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


I'm gonna be driving from Buffalo NY to Cleveland OH this weekend...are there
any places where cops like to hide that I should watch out for? thanks


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Joel Sprechman		v069pff7@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
University At Buffalo   sprec-j@acsu.buffalo.edu

"Some people say I must be a horrible person, that's not true. I have the heart
of a boy, in a jar on my desk"-Stephen King
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: stuarta@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Stuart Andrews)
Subject: Re: Shopping Center Parking Lot Traffic Laws
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Australia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:38:48 GMT

> What laws apply in parking lots..

None really, and police have no powers to enforce law within a parking lot but...
From a legal point of view, to determine fault in any particular incident, the   most likely argument to succede in an action would be the one which applied the laws of the public domain in which the parking lot lies. Actual damages would be to the effect of actual damage done + whatever your lawyer is good enough to scam. Basically, in settling disputes, the law still applies, but the government has no power to enforce nor do they make money out of it!

Geoffrey Breach
AWA Communications
Sydney, Australia