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From: Chris Bartram on 31 May 2010 16:56
On 31/05/10 12:45, Brimstone wrote:

> The bit I find really annoying when the button has been pressed and they
> take long time to change (not including where a has red to cars aspect
> has just cleared). All to often, one presses the button, waits and
> before the lights change there is a break in the traffic allowing one to
> cross safely. Later, the lights change and some poor sod has to wait for
> no one to cross.
>
>
Indeed. One crossing near here will happily stay on green for traffic
when there's a long gap, only to change the very moment some appears,
and after one has crossed and got several yards down the road.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 1 Jun 2010 01:49
On Mon, 31 May 2010 06:17:22 -0700 (PDT), Squashme
<squashme(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>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?

they could, at a price.
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Ed Chilada on 1 Jun 2010 03:19
On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:56:50 +0100, ChelseaTractorMan
<mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>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?

Yes, and it should be remotely controllable and the controllers should
be freely available on eBay.


From: Squashme on 1 Jun 2010 04:42
On 1 June, 08:19, Ed Chilada <nos...(a)nospam.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:56:50 +0100, ChelseaTractorMan
>
> <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >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?
>
> Yes, and it should be remotely controllable and the controllers should
> be freely available on eBay.

Great! Pedestrians could buy them. Hours of endless fun. Beats
Nintendo.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 1 Jun 2010 05:22
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:42:51 -0700 (PDT), Squashme <squashme(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Pedestrians could buy them

pedestrians are usually the same people as drivers and passengers.
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
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