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Re: the TRUTH about Daytime Running Lights !!!!!!
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Subject: Re: the TRUTH about Daytime Running Lights !!!!!!
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From: sg932fjd@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Samir Bhakta)
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Date: 26 Sep 1995 17:02:16 GMT
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
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Organization: Drexel University
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References: <445c9j$idd@pioneer.nevada.edu>
MICHAEL TAJON (tajon@nevada.edu) wrote:
: The purpose of DRL's is to be noticed, correct? Very similar to
: shouting. If one person in a crowded room is shouting, that person gets
: noticed, and usually everyone else listens. Now, if everyone in the
: crowded room is shouting, nobody can hear what is being said.
: DRL's are so effective because not everyone has/uses them, so people
: 'listen.' If everyone has DRL's, everyone is shouting "notice me!" And
: everyone is left saying to themselves, "Notice who?" I wonder who it was
: that said, "He who sees everything, sees nothing..."
Very good point, Mike. This seems to be often overlooked in discussions
about DRLs.
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"It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast than to
go into a corner fast and come out dead." - Stirling Moss
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