RE: [FWP] Traffic Signals Should be Rationalized

[Andy Bach <root@wiwb.uscourts.gov>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Josh Goldberg wrote:

> > Obviously the colors should be left as they are (red, yellow, green),
> > for this reason:  when you drive around with your 3-d specs on (as
[snip]

This has gone on long enough; to point it back to perl etc. it is obvious
that cars are objects and stopping a method, as is 'getting' the
information "its time to stop".  Each car should be equipped so as to
handle its own stop methods internally (perhaps we could implement this w/
the "brake" pedal, but the name has unsatifactory overtones) and allow
various external systems to inquire as to the appropriate method and then
return or, perhaps, callback the "stopping" method via what ever
colors/signals/semiphores the car is able to handle.  The idea of a
single, external standard marker for this sort of behaviour went out w/
... well, w/ something now extinct. 

Hmmm, perhaps cars should have, for safety reasons, "stopping" as the 
default response to any unknown signal.  This would allow all the color 
options for signals to be used, as desired and even handle the cases where 
drivers, baffled by their 3D glasses (or drivers who's batteries have 
failed, leaving them stuck in 2D vision mode) or distracted for other 
reasons who fail to register the "time to stop" information.

Plus, it'll be more reusable.

a

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