<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>On 07/22/2013 04:54 PM, Sparr wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">In either event, the first
violator of the protocol is the one who is cited, sometimes
with others if there is a complex chain resulting. If people
are stopping at a blinking yellow, then they have violated the
protocol. The result of the protocol violation is going to be
a collision—it could be a rear-end (possibly chain) collision,
or a collision indirectly caused by the violator by falsely
giving everyone else the impression that it's a four-way stop
and then they don't check for themselves</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, this is not how the situation is enforced, and
thus not how people are practically required to handle it. If I
stop at a flashing red and see you stop, without knowing your
signal,</div>
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If you do not know my signal, then you did not take the 2-3 seconds
at your blinking red to assess the situation. This would be your
first error in handling the situation...</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hypothetical-you stops at the flashing yellow for 1-5 seconds (randomly selected to be most confusing to me). No amount of time I spend looking at you will accurately inform me of your view or intentions.</div>
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<div> There is no course of action that I can take to satisfy the
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Sure there is: assess the situation when you arrive at your stop
sign (flashing red)! You have a stop sign. It is as simple as
that. You take a couple of seconds, and you discover (a) the state
of the intersection, (b) the state of the lights, and (c) the state
of the other vehicles around. If you don't do all three before
proceeding through the intersection, well—hey, your car, your life!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As I've stated above and before, no matter how long I wait, I cannot accurately discover the state of the intersection or any lights that I cannot see.</div>
<div><br></div><div>PS: Another excellent spin-off of this situation... where I live (Boston) there are some intersections where *oncoming* traffic has a red light while I have a green light (not a green arrow) and I want to turn left. Stopping before I turn left is a bad decision; it gets me rear ended and/or cited and/or slows down traffic. NOT stopping is dangerous because MAYBE the oncoming traffic's light just changed from red to green, or maybe it was green the whole time and they just weren't paying attention. </div>
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