Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Flashing high beams Message-ID: <1050@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 00:33:09 EST Article-I.D.: sdchema.1050 Posted: Wed Feb 22 00:33:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 07:33:31 EST References: <822@hou5d.UUCP> Organization: UC San Diego Chemistry Dept. NIH Research Resource Lines: 28 From Mark Terribile: To the individuals who don't know that flashed high beams mean ``please let me pass'': What state were you licensed in??? Did you READ the divers manual for your state?? Did you even GET one?? I didn't know you needed a license if you didn't jump off the high board... Can they arrest you for not wearing a cap in the pool? But seriously, folks... I first was put behind the wheel of an automobile (small truck, actually) in Indonesia. I firmly believed then (and still do) that one flashes one's high beams as a courtesy to oncoming traffic, telling them, 'Look out, I'm coming through!' Needless to say, failure to flash one's lights after moving into the left lane is tres gauche and likely to lead to accidents of the sort where both the vehicle being passed and an oncoming vehicle end up wrapped around palm trees. Indonesian vehicular manslaughter is so common that it rarely is remarked on when fewer than 40 individuals are involved... (:-> ?) American drivers aren't THAT bad, Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn