Date:         Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:11:28 GMT
Reply-To:     Philip Chidlaw <pchidlaw@MCN.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Philip Chidlaw <pchidlaw@MCN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: I get no respect
Comments: To: The corruptor <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>

Ben, I couldn't agree more, and CA law supports your comments. While courtesy
and safety require that on-freeway traffic assist the oblivious, the ignorant,
and the underpowered (me in my westy) to the extent that they can without
creating another hazard, the merging vehicle is required by law to yield. The
driver who blindly aims his car into traffic without even a head turn to
assess openings may well be the same driver that does not know the triangilar
profile of a yield sign, or perhaps does not know what yield means. CA freeway
on-ramps are generally not posted with yield signs, except to direct cross
traffic funneling into to on-ramp entry itself. It has been in the CA driver
handbook for at least 29 years when I first used it as the standard study
guide my class-C drivers license.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/pgs47thru51.htm

Philip Chidlaw

>>
> People don't even look on the dead angle spot????????????????????????
>
> They just drive in??????????????? at whatever speed they want???????????????
> What the hell is that, what is the regulation in the
state?????????????????????
>
>