XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Paul M. Cook  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >>> Yes. In the USA, you may find a few people who know the rules   
   >>> of the road (e.g., when a truck passes, you flash him with your   
   >>> headlights so he knows he can pull back in front of you,   
      
   >> There is no such 'rule of the road' and no truck ever needs   
   >> you to do that because he can see a hell of a lot better than   
   >> you can whether it is safe to pull back in front of you when   
   >> he passes.   
      
   > On this, Rod, you're dead wrong.   
      
   We'll see...   
      
   > Anyone in the USA who knows this can test it out.   
      
   There is no need to test anything with RULE OF THE ROAD.   
      
   You check the legislation on that question.   
      
   > At least nine times out of ten, if a truck passes you, and   
   > then puts his turn signal on to get back in the lane you're   
   > in, and if you flash him (usually a double flash of your   
   > headlights), when he pulls back over, you'll see he will   
   > double flash his tail lights as a thank you.   
      
   I just don’t believe you on that 9 times out of 10   
   and I just don’t believe that very many are actually   
   stupid enough to flash their headlights in that   
   situation where the truck driver has a MUCH   
   better view of what traffic is doing than the   
   driver of the car being passed will ever have.   
      
   You can't even claim that the truck driver has   
   a particular problem with not being able to   
   see whether they are past the car being passed   
   so that its safe to pull back into the same lane   
   that the car is in, because if they can't see the   
   car in their mirror on that side, they wont be   
   able to see that car's headlights to see the   
   flash in the daytime anyway.   
      
   > This is quite normal in the USA.   
   > I've done and seen it a thousand times.   
      
   I just don’t believe that very many car drivers   
   bother to flash their headlights in that situation.   
      
   I have never ever seen anyone do that here.   
      
   I have seen something quite different, in hilly areas   
   where it can be hard to see what is coming towards   
   you, when you are behind a truck that you want to   
   overtake, the truck driver being much higher than   
   the car can see that its safe to overtake when the   
   car driver can't see that, and can indicate to the   
   car driver that its safe to overtake.   
      
   > Anyone who doesn't know it, or anyone who   
   > hasn't seen it, has simply been ignorant of it,   
      
   It has nothing to with ignorance with   
   something as visible as headlight flashing.   
      
   If you see someone coming toward you   
   flash their headlights like that during the   
   day it normally means that there is a cop   
   car booking people for exceeding the speed   
   limit up ahead of where you are headed   
   or sometimes just an obstruction like cattle   
   on the road etc.   
      
   > like so many other things (such as the   
   > direction of the stripes in a construction sign,   
      
   No such animal here. No stripes at all in fact.   
      
   > or such as the direction of increase   
   > in all interstate mile markers,   
      
   What ?  We have mile markets on the side   
   of the road that are appropriate for the   
   cars on that side of the road. You cant even   
   seen what is on the ones on the other side   
   of the road except in your rear vision mirror.   
      
   And we have fucking great side of a bus   
   sized signs with the distance to major   
   towns just after major intersections too.   
      
   > or of breakaway signs, etc.).   
      
   Not at all clear what you are talking about there even after googling it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)