From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 05:56:31 PDT
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"
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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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