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- From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
- Subject: Re: Analog Brake Light
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.155819.22074@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <4467@news.chips.com> <lg01i5INNqlv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:58:19 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <lg01i5INNqlv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- chrisp@regenmeister.Sun.COM (Chris Prael) writes:
- >A device along these lines was devised by a guy in Arizona ten, or so,
- >years ago and Yellow Cab put it on all their cars in San Francisco.
- >IT WAS A DANGEROUS ABOMINATION!
-
- >The device had the basic effect of riviting the attention of most
- >following drivers on the car with the brake blinker.
-
- >Drop it! It's been tried and it was really stupid.
-
- NO- It was *not* stupid. Once again, it was the stupidity of the public that
- killed a very good idea.
-
- (I personally think that anyone who can't tell from depth perception how fast
- a car's slowing down doesn't need to be behind the wheel of a car anyway.)
-
- -Kenny
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