James May on panda crossings
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From: Zimmy on 31 May 2010 10:21 "ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:kbu606pf20koou9gbt9pekp5ep429g7na3(a)4ax.com... > He thinks (in the Torygraph) that they should have a cancel button to > use when a gap appears and you do not need the lights to change. > Do you? You're showing your age, Panda crossings were phased out long before 1969 when Pelican crossings came in (I had to look up panda crossings in Wikipedia!). Anyway, I think not pressing the button unless you need to is a better idea. Cancel buttons are probably subject to abuse, some folk are happy to dart across in a tiny gap whereas you don't want young kids or wheelchair users being cancelled just because one person has decided to cross, then when there's people on both sides, can one side cancel the other, etc. He needs to think it through a bit more. Z
From: Tony Dragon on 31 May 2010 10:37 Brimstone wrote: > "ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:2l2706p7ao8so6edj0s6k62c9apgps467p(a)4ax.com... >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:58:30 +0100, "Brimstone" >> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I once did at about one o'clock in the morning (I was at work) with >>> just one >>> car approaching (and no others visible). It was a police car. :-) >> >> Dugh on his bike in the rain would be good :-) >> -- > Except that he would ignore the red light. They don't apply to him. > > But it would apply to him, it's cyclists they do not apply to, and he's not a cyclist any more. -- Tony Dragon
From: Brimstone on 31 May 2010 10:48 "Tony Dragon" <tony.dragon(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:I_qdnW4oi9IxVJ7RnZ2dnUVZ8nudnZ2d(a)bt.com... > Brimstone wrote: >> "ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:2l2706p7ao8so6edj0s6k62c9apgps467p(a)4ax.com... >>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:58:30 +0100, "Brimstone" >>> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I once did at about one o'clock in the morning (I was at work) with >>>> just one >>>> car approaching (and no others visible). It was a police car. :-) >>> >>> Dugh on his bike in the rain would be good :-) >>> -- >> Except that he would ignore the red light. They don't apply to him. > > But it would apply to him, it's cyclists they do not apply to, and he's > not a cyclist any more. > Remember, Doug is an "stalo-anarchist". Stalo-anarchists don't believe in rules for themselves, only for other people.
From: Halmyre on 31 May 2010 12:05 In article <hu0gl9$4b2$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, z(a)y.x says... > > "ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:kbu606pf20koou9gbt9pekp5ep429g7na3(a)4ax.com... > > He thinks (in the Torygraph) that they should have a cancel button to > > use when a gap appears and you do not need the lights to change. > > Do you? > > You're showing your age, Panda crossings were phased out long before 1969 > when Pelican crossings came in (I had to look up panda crossings in > Wikipedia!). > This is James May remember. He still can't understand where the man with the red flag went. -- Halmyre This is the most powerful sigfile in the world and will probably blow your head clean off.
From: Nick Finnigan on 31 May 2010 14:25
Squashme wrote: > On 31 May, 13:24, Nick Finnigan <n...(a)genie.co.uk> wrote: >> Squashme wrote: >>> How about automatic sensors that start to change the lights to stop >>> traffic as soon as a pedestrian appears wanting to cross, and then >> How would they detect which pedestrians want to cross? > > That's one for those designer chappies. Hell, if they can put a cruise > missile thorugh a window after a flight of hundreds of miles (often > the right window too), surely they can handle that? Yes, RFID implanted under the skin at 1 YO and sensors in every lamppost linked to a central database with software to predict everyone's journeys. Unless you think there is an intelligent designer chappie software? |