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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
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Posted: Sat Feb 11 20:13:00 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:33:31 EST
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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