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!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: More on (sigh) flashing high beams Message-ID: <1088@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 16:48:28 EST Article-I.D.: sdchema.1088 Posted: Sun Mar 18 16:48:28 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:50:18 EST Organization: Used Softwear Jobbers, Inc. (Clandestine Computer Services) Lines: 26 I get letters... Subject: Re: Flashing high beams References: <822@hou5d.UUCP>, <1050@sdchema.UUCP> I find the practice of flashing high beams for passing to be quite offensive, and even sometimes dangerous. It can be almost blinding at times, not to mention slightly un-nerving if not anticipated. I will usually move IF CONVENIENT. I resent the impatient attitude that is usually behind such a flashing. Some such "jerks" are bound to cause accidents! It's hard to tell what the sender had in mind from a letter like this, but just to make it perfectly clear, my earlier submission which claimed that one flashes one's high beams to warn ONCOMING traffic when passing was in jest. I imagine that there are people who think this way but I am not one of them. In fact I am a regular wimp on the highway. When several cars queue up behind me on a two-lane road, I try to find a spot on the shoulder to pull over and let them pass. Recently I was toiling up the San Marcos Pass in third gear in my overloaded VW Beetle, and pulled over so that the cars behind me wouldn't have to chance the heavy oncoming traffic while passing me going uphill. It sure is nice to see people wave all five fingers at you instead of just the middle one... Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn