Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5d.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!mat From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Flashing high beams Message-ID: <822@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 20:13:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou5d.822 Posted: Sat Feb 11 20:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:33:31 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 35 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?? (Incredulity. Shock. Dismay. Disgust.) I was first licensed in New York (at age 24!) and am now licensed in New Jersey. Both drivers manuals cover the flashing high beams, and a fair amount of other important but apparently forgotten rules. For those of you visiting New York: Do you know the difference between parking, stopping, and standing? Or what privileges and burdens are placed on vehicles with commercial plates? Or under what circumstances you MAY park by a fire hydrant? Or what ``alternate side of the street parking'' and ``snow emergency street'' are and the ramifications of each? In New Jersey, to get a license you must know (some) of the penalties for various alcohol-related offenses and repititions thereof. In New York, you may be asked the difference between DWI and DWAI (driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired). Other states surely cover their own peculiarities. And when MUST you drive with parking lights only? (yes, in NY and NJ at least, there are places (that's a hint) where you must. Judging by the way people use their lights they don't know. Maybe we all SHOULD go through the European training courses. But it would help if we would pull out those driver's manuals and read them now and then! Mark Terribile hou5d!mat Duke Of deNet