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From: behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Subject: Re: Another Ticket Question :-(
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:47:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.203128.7095@news.columbia.edu> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears) writes:
>
>	Sorry to bring up another ticket question, but here goes:
>
>	Does anyone know a reliable way to find out which states have
>	reciprocity with which states (i.e. which tickets transfer to which
>	states)? I have asked in the states I got the tickets in and in my
>	home state of Idaho, but both DMVs claimed that all tickets transfer.
>	I don't believe them, it sounds like they say it just to scare you.

	Yeah:  join the NMA.  They publish a yearly guide to traffic laws in
the 50 states, including which states report tickets/suspensions to other
states.

	Gotta watch though:  some insurance companies will ask for an abstract
of your driving record from the previous state if your driving record in the
current state spans less than three years.  Ask me how I know  :-(

Later,
-- 
Chris BeHanna	DoD# 114  KotHLF    1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide (She lives!)
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com	            (I need another bike for this space!)

Disclaimer:  Now why would NEC agree with any of this anyway?
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Tailgaters abound!
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:36:15 GMT

In article <lasn58INN6a5@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>...but you brought to mind one of my pet driving peeves:  Why 
>would anybody _want_ to leave more than a few feet of space between you
>and the car in front of you?  Not that I think you should necessarily be 
>inches from its rear bumper, but certainly a happy medium can be found.  

	[...other stuff...]

... *everything* he said.

I just came back from Chicago (my home town) on a contract recruiting trip.
The traffic problems (which must be *very* recent- I swear I don't remember
it being like this 4 years ago) caused mostly by two-hander left lane hogs
and other contestants in the "Valium Grand Prix" have essentially killed my
desire to return home to work. I never thought I'd say this, but after being
in Dallas and Chicago back-to-back these last coupla months, I'll never dis
Boston drivers again. For the most part, we drive like we've got somewhere to
be, traffic be damned.

	-Kenny
-- 
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OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
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Not one of the "PC" weenies.
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Tailgaters abound!
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:23:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.211346.8659@unixg.ubc.ca> tam@ocgy.ubc.ca writes:
>I sometimes drive slowly to bait other drivers into passing me....

Well! It's so nice when the traffic jerks ID themselves.

I wish we could standardize on a bumper sticker for these kinds of folks.


-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA
OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
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Not one of the "PC" weenies.
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: pvmason@cco.caltech.edu (Peter V. Mason)
Subject: Re: Does a cop need to show you the RADAR reading?
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:19:39 GMT

In article <11021@rls.UUCP> randy@rls.UUCP (randall l. smith) writes:
>judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson) writes:
>> In California, in order to issue a citation, the speed must still be
>> displayed on the radar gun.  Thus, if the motorists asks to see the speed
>> on the gun and there is none showing, then the officer has no case and
>> the motorist is free to go.  However, the officer is not required to show
>> the speed, but only on request.  If the motorist does not ask to see the
>> reading on the gun and he decides to contest the ticket, what proof does
>> he have that he wasn't speeding.  The officer's alledged proof is the
>> reading on the radar gun.  And who's the judge going to believe?
>
>The irony there is what if the cop says in court there was a reading and
>you say there wasn't.  The courts will invariably believe the cop anyway.
>uucp: randy@rls.uucp
 I gave some testimony in a radar case in South Pasadena CA some years ago.
At that time, the radar recorded on a chart recorder.  Because the California
law for street speed is something like "reasonable and proper", you could
subpoena the record to show that you were travelling with the traffic, even
tho it was above the speed limit. In fact, I believe that speed surveys must 
be done on CA streets at intervals, and if you can show that there isn't
a current one, you have a sufficient defense. Any comments/informed
opinion on this?

Peter Mason
From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Power sources for radar dectectors
Keywords: radar detectors
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 22:01:25 EDT
Organization: Hurts rent-a-dungeon, Inc.

tafrakes@athena.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:

> Does anyone have any advice on power sources for radar detectors
> other than the standard lighter jack.  Can you run it straight from
> the battery with a fused lead?  What about map lights, etc?  Could
> someone who's done this give some advice on a plan of action (i.e.
> installation pitfalls, etc)?  Thanks.

In any car that I own (as opposed to a rent-a-beater), I usually
hardwire my detector into the "accessory" circuit. This is the one that
is on any time the key is in the "run" position.

All the cars I've owned have had a spade lug available on the fuse block
for this purpose. It's a good idea to use a fuse (1a, mostly) in the
actual wiring to the detector.

Pick a ground up at any point that's convenient, but make sure it's a
good one.

Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: 4x4  vs  4x2  ???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:13:48 GMT


In article <_#rnc2.garyd@netcom.com> garyd@netcom.com (Gary Dietz) writes:
>I'm considering buying a pick up truck.  I'll be using it in snow country
>30% of the time.
>
>Obviously, a 4 x 4 gives me more traction in bad weather.  But how much?

Car&Driver did a comparison article within the last year. They compared
4WD/AWD, FWD and RWD vehicles in various traction conditions. Check it
out and decide for yourself. IMHO, it's well worth the extra costs.
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: 4x4  vs  4x2  ???
Summary: Yup.. People with 4x4's seem to think they can do magical things
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:07:21 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <26168@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
> Finally, practice in successively tougher situations until you've
> learned how to drive it in this new performance regime. I used to
> work for a pretty good off-road driver who would go out in his 2WD
> pickup on bad days and yank out incompetents who had gotten their
> 4x4s in too deep, literally.  (I also knew somebody who sank a Jeep
> up to the door handles in a bog, but that's another story.)  A 4x4
> is a machine, not a magic carpet.

Several times a year I read in the paper about local idjits with new
Bronco's, Jeeps, Blazers or other breeds of 4-bys who roll their
precious new iron down a hill. Seems they never figured out that you can
drive one UP a hill or DOWN a hill but that it's really stoopid [tm] to
try and drive one ACROSS a hill :) 

Around here (South-central Pennsylvania) we have lots of hills for these
people to prove that it's NOT a good idea. 

The other stoopid [tm] thing is when we get a really DEEP snow storm and
those same people try to plow through a pile of packed snow. They look
real sheepish when the tow trucks come to pull them out. They just CAN'T
understand why their fancy vehicles can't pull themselves out when the
snow is packed under the skid plates and the tires are off the ground. 

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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Power sources for radar dectectors
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 00:10:20 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Keywords: radar detectors

In article <1992Sep4.192552.17463@athena.mit.edu> tafrakes@athena.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:
>Does anyone have any advice on power sources for radar detectors
>other than the standard lighter jack.  Can you run it straight from
>the battery with a fused lead?  What about map lights, etc?  Could
>someone who's done this give some advice on a plan of action (i.e.
>installation pitfalls, etc)?  Thanks.

It's pretty easy to just solder it in to the fuse box, to the same
circuit as the lighter uses. If you wanted to get fancy, I guessyou
could tap into the wiring harness for the lighter instead.  I suppose
you could run it from the battery, but it seems like a lot of trouble.

-- 
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: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Reasonable and Sensible (was Re: Tailgaters abound)
Date: 12 Sep 1992 18:23:16 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.202

Before everyone takes Ken apart at the seams for driving so
aggressively, if you haven't driven in Boston you just can't know why
he (and I and many others) *must* drive that way.

There's a tongue-in-cheek book called _The Boston Driver's Handbook_
that came out in 1981 or so that gives some very good descriptions of
how things *actually are* in the Boston area.  It's humorous, but
many of the situations it discusses -- particularly the intersection
behavior -- are dead serious (the two-page spread is the intersection
of Harvard and Commonwealth Avenues -- I lived a block from there and
it's got the traffic sequence cold).

Boston driving is complicated by the fact that the people who laid out
the streets were not planning to have cars drive on them, and nobody's
ever cleaned them up.  Worse than that, and totally unforgivable, is
the fact that the traffic management system was designed by a complete
and total moron.  Actually it was probably "designed" by several
hundred moderately intelligent people, but the effect is the same --
none of the lights are sequenced with respect to each other (look at
the Kneeland Street fiasco) and many of the larger intersections (such
as Watertown Square) have the lighting sequence set up to favor roads
that aren't the main source of traffic anymore (damn it, nobody uses
route 20 anymore -- but Galen Street and Mount Auburn have more than
30,000 cars a day!).

The result of poorly designed traffic management systems is deadlock
much of the time.  During rush hours it's not uncommon to see no more
than three or four cars on a very busy road make it through a lighting
sequence that cycles every three minutes.  Some bozo who's not paying
attention cuts that number even further.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Another Ticket Question :-(
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:37:11 GMT
Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University

In article <37872@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu writes:
>Here are the member states in the Driver's License Compact: 
>(info courtesy of Nolo Press)
>
>Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, DC,
>Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
>Maryland, Miss, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New
>Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia,
>Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.
>
>New additions to the list:
>
>Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire 

	Thanks for the info. Too bad all the states I've been getting tickets
	in are in there :-(.

	BTW, do you know how new the "new" additions are (like this summer,
	or what?)? Thanks
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: RHK765@paccvm.corp.mot.com (B.M. Kwong)
Subject: Re: What is engine braking?
Organization: Motorola
Date: 5 Sep 1992 14:14:48 HKT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: rbanksjr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Richard E. Banks Jr.)
Subject: What is engine braking?
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:18:47 GMT


>Can someone please describe what engine braking is and how to do?
>
>Thanks.
>Richard Earl Jr.

Engine braking means to use the engine itself to assist the braking
process.  The engine is like a big pump and it absorbs kinetic energy.
To make use of engine braking, you need to shift down to a lower gear
when you want to slow down.  In case you are going downhill and you
want to slow down, you can downshift to a lower gear instead of putting
your foot on the brake.  The merit of using engine to assist braking
is that you don't need to press your foot on the brake for such a long
time and thus reduce the chance of brake fading due to overheat of
brake pad.  Try to downshift first when going downhill. Beware of
the top speed of each gear and don't downshift to a gear that cannot
support the car's running speed or you may break your engine.  Cars
with auto also have engine braking effect though the response will not
be as quick as manual.

B.M. Kwong
From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Power sources for radar dectectors
Keywords: radar detectors
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:27:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: cwis.trussell.715642034
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

tafrakes@athena.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:

>Does anyone have any advice on power sources for radar detectors
>other than the standard lighter jack.  Can you run it straight from
>the battery with a fused lead?  What about map lights, etc?  Could
>someone who's done this give some advice on a plan of action (i.e.
>installation pitfalls, etc)?  Thanks.

    Sure - you can run it with a wire coming from the appropriate accessory
lead in the fuse block, probably.  I'm no electrician, but I've seen it
done.

    Check your local place that sells lots of radar detectors and accessories
for them, chances are they'll have a kit to do it.  Our local Service
Merchandise store sells a nice kit with a fused 6 ft lead and instructions
for $9.99.

--
    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
                                                  -- Phil Karn
From: dmarshal@Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM (Dave Marshall)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: An Amazing, Unbelievable Low-Mileage Car Story
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:46:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Reston, VA

Here's a tale that no one (particularly someone who might one day buy
the car in question) is likely to believe:

My sister, who lives in Boston, paid off her '87 Escort yesterday.  I was
with her the day she bought it - Columbus Day, 1987.  At that time, it
had about 10 miles on it.

Her pay-off mileage?  17,441.7.  Seventeen thousand and change.  Less
than ten miles a day.  Unbelievable.

Seeing as everyone else in the family is a speed/mileage freak, I am wondering
whether there was a mixup at the hospital.
-- 
                                           Dave Marshall
                                           dmarshal@stars.reston.unisys.com
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Subject: Another Ticket Question :-(
Reply-To: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:31:28 GMT


	Sorry to bring up another ticket question, but here goes:

	Does anyone know a reliable way to find out which states have
	reciprocity with which states (i.e. which tickets transfer to which
	states)? I have asked in the states I got the tickets in and in my
	home state of Idaho, but both DMVs claimed that all tickets transfer.
	I don't believe them, it sounds like they say it just to scare you.

	If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them... e-mail's good, so
	is posting as I read this group all the time.

	Thanks


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From: svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Another Ticket Question :-(
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:19:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep9.203128.7095@news.columbia.edu> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears) writes:
>	Does anyone know a reliable way to find out which states have
>	reciprocity with which states (i.e. which tickets transfer to which
>	states)? I have asked in the states I got the tickets in and in my
>	home state of Idaho, but both DMVs claimed that all tickets transfer.
>	I don't believe them, it sounds like they say it just to scare you.

Here are the member states in the Driver's License Compact: 
(info courtesy of Nolo Press)

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, DC,
Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Miss, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New
Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia,
Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.

New additions to the list:

Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire
From: mday@pollock.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Objects falling from vehicles
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:51:22 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori) writes:

>The worst thing I've ever seen fly off a truck was a
>2-foot section of a 2x4, while the truck it flew off
>of and I were doing about 70 on I-20, east of Columbia,
>S.C..

The worst thing I ever saw fly off a vehicle, was a fully loaded ski rack.
For about 5 seconds, it was the funniest thing I ever saw fall off. Then I
realized that the car in front of me that lost the rack was my friend's, and
those were *my* skiis.  Fortunately, my trusty Rossi FPs came out with only
superficial damage (I think they had suffered more damage in lift lines on a
busy weekend at Squaw).  

Couldn't get too upset at the ski rack.  It still had a death grip on the
rain gutters.  I would warn any owners of '78 Chevy Monzas not to trust
their rain gutters to hold a roof rack, but I don't think that there are
any Monzas left on the road.


--
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University of California, San Francisco		..ucbvax!ucsfcgl!mday
Voice: (415) 476-5326	FAX: (415) 476-0688
From: collin@angelo.amd.com (Collin K. Ong)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Laser-shielding-- the REAL THING!!!
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:59:29 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

While looking through the Edmund Scientific catalog today, I found the
following:

Laser-Gard Safety Goggles and Glasses
"...The impact-resistant polymer in Laser-Gard goggles employs absorbers
developed by the American Cyanamid Company to protect against the 
scattered or reflected radiation from the most commonly used lasers.
Because the protection is provided by absorbtion, there are no
hazardous reflections produced by the protective devices themselves.
The absorbers are homogeneously dispersed throughout the polymer, thus
the laser protection is not affected by minor scratches or marring
of the lens surface.  Laser-Gard goggles and spectacles provide 
necessary protection without sacrificing luminous transmittance allowing
workers to see clearly to perform their tasks."

They have types for broad spectrum absorbtion or narrow spectrum.
The narrow spectrum ones have different types for the following lasers:
Neodymium-Gallium Arsenide, Ruby, He-Ne, CO2, Ne-N, Ar, Kryton (red).

The pictures show a variety of glasses, with the lenses being colored
greed, blue, amber, and light pink.  Some are rather dark but the 
light pink seems nearly transparent.

This technology looks like exactly the thing needed to beat LIDAR,
provided the color needed to LIDAR absorbtion is light enough to
still allow adequate visual transmission and not be obvious.
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
Subject: Re: Tailgaters abound!
Reply-To: jern@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:10:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.151320.13822@osf.org>, kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
|> In article <BuF1ot.4Kn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
|> >Seriously, I read all of that post, and tam@ocgy struck me as a very
|> >reasonable and sensible driver.
|> 
|> "reasonable and sensible"
|> "reasonable and sensible"
|> "reasonable and sensible"
|> "reasonable and sensible"
|> "reasonable and sensible"
|> 
|> "Reasonable and sensible" == "plodding and slow". Nothing else. The asleep-
|> at-the-wheel contingent takes to the road.

These kind of posts conjure up images of some guy in a red (ever notice they're mostly red) car flashing his lights trying to drive 65 during the rush hour crawl.  I've wondered what the program is... "Hey you 20,000 drivers ahead of me, get out of my way!"

Seems that some drivers take the traffic conditions and the given environment in which they have to drive and others seem to try to dictate to others the desired environment.  Maybe like there's a root assumption that rude driving = good driving.

I read an article several years ago in which Ken Purdy was discussing this phenomenon.  He said that back in the 50's during one of the Races Across America, he was codriver for Dan Gurney and during the entire trip Gurney never envaded another driver's space.  Gurney won that race, but then, he was, is, a good driver.

bob jernigan
From: u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: How can I change gear without using clutch?
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:40:06 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

as the subject said
how can i change gear while not using the clutch?
cheers

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