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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
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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