http://www.sellingwaves.com/2008/01/05/backing-up-to-youth/ A graduate student in mathematics and a modern languages major take on politics and culture with the following aspirational motto: ‘Deregulate your mind.’ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:08:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2008/01/05/backing-up-to-youth/#comment-67795 Curt Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:37:27 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2008/01/05/backing-up-to-youth/#comment-67795 <p>Well, I have a feeling that both the flashing hand and yellow lights are programmed to last about as long as it would take for car or person to cross the intersection, not how long it takes for either one of them to stop. But in my opinion they should last as long as it takes for someone to make a decision about whether to stop or go and act on it without any sudden, jerky, dangerous movements, and based on that reasoning the length of these intermediate signals is a little weird. Since the time it takes for a person to do this walking is virtually nil at the speed they're moving, I don't really see the point of the flashing hand (they should just have a timer counting down the seconds until the cross-traffic light changes, which some places have), whereas the yellows should be probably longer than the four seconds or whatever which seems to be pretty standard. </p> Well, I have a feeling that both the flashing hand and yellow lights are programmed to last about as long as it would take for car or person to cross the intersection, not how long it takes for either one of them to stop. But in my opinion they should last as long as it takes for someone to make a decision about whether to stop or go and act on it without any sudden, jerky, dangerous movements, and based on that reasoning the length of these intermediate signals is a little weird. Since the time it takes for a person to do this walking is virtually nil at the speed they’re moving, I don’t really see the point of the flashing hand (they should just have a timer counting down the seconds until the cross-traffic light changes, which some places have), whereas the yellows should be probably longer than the four seconds or whatever which seems to be pretty standard.

]]> http://www.sellingwaves.com/2008/01/05/backing-up-to-youth/#comment-67793 shonk Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:04:13 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2008/01/05/backing-up-to-youth/#comment-67793 <p>The flashing hand is really more of an aid to not getting caught in the middle of the intersection, not to giving you enough time to slow down.</p> The flashing hand is really more of an aid to not getting caught in the middle of the intersection, not to giving you enough time to slow down.

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