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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:49:00 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. Very few are that colorblind I've never heard of partial colourblindness, Yes, you actually are that pig ignorant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness mind you I've not heard of many colourblind people. Yes, you actually are that pig ignorant. I've seen it most with people who get rejected by the military for being colourblind who had previously not been aware that they were colourblind because the problem is that small. and those who are just use the position of the light, not the color. Sounds bloody dangerous to me. Yes, you actually are that pig ignorant. Those who do the licensing of drivers so check that you can do stuff like read a number plate at a distance but they don't actually check that you can distinguish between red and green lights, for a reason. I use my full field of vision while driving. I can see pedestrians and dogs moving in my peripheral vision. I can see a light turning red in my peripheral vision. And the tiny subset of those who can not distinguish between red and green, are quite capable of glancing at the traffic light to see which bulb is lit and still being aware of where other cars are and of say a pedestrian choosing to cross the road when they feel like it. Dunno how they go with those colored arrows that are now so common to indicate when you can turn at the more complex intersections tho. They're always on the side they're pointing to, and they can see the shape surely? The problem isnt the shape. Some of ours have a single arrow beside the green which changes from a red arrow to a green one when you are allowed to make a turn there. Cant find a proper photo of ours and too lazy to go there and take a photo, but we have some where there is a normal column of 3 lights and one arrow off to the side which changes color to indicate when you are free to turn there. That often has the forward traffic stopped but the turn allowed with a green arrow. And at times the turn not allowed either with a red arrow in the same place as the green one. Ah, that sounds more complicated than ours. Yeah, these are only at our more complicated intersections, one which has the railway yards shunting line going right across the multi lane road, right at the lights themselves with a large volume of traffic at both of them. We just have red, amber, green in a column, Yeah, most of ours are too. then some have a green arrow stuck on the left (for left turns) and the right (for right turns) of the green circular light. That's what ours have to, but ours are either a red arrow or a green arrow, and only the color of the arrow changes. Presumably that's a recent thing now that they are all LED lights so its easy to have the arrow color change now. Mind you, our system can cause accidents. There was one near here where sometimes you could go forwards but not right. The green circular light came on, but not the green arrow. Many drivers assumed green circle, go anywhere, and turned right into oncoming traffic. Yeah, that's presumably why our arrows change color, so that its always clear if you can turn or not. They replaced the circular light with a forward arrow, We don't have any like that here. Only multiple color arrows for the turning lane. which is much more sensible. Mind you, that junction was much more efficient with no lights and a roundabout. Ours with the complicated lights arent feasible to have a roundabout. In the case of one of them the railway yard shunting line goes right thru the intersection and in the other there just isnt room for it. We still put in new roundabout where that is feasible, but they arent cheap with the big ones. Multiple megabucks. On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:07:18 -0000, Brian Gaff wrote: Yes I think that is where the confusion came from actually. So many people have colour blindness that blue is normally avoided. Brian |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:42:21 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Steve Walker" wrote in message news On 16/12/2018 19:49, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. Very few are that colorblind and those who are just use the position of the light, not the color. Dunno how they go with those colored arrows that are now so common to indicate when you can turn at the more complex intersections tho. Cant find a proper photo of ours and too lazy to go there and take a photo, but we have some where there is a normal column of 3 lights and one arrow off to the side which changes color to indicate when you are free to turn there. Ours doesn't change colour. We have the normal three lights and maybe an arrow at one side (sometimes both sides). If the main green is lit, but not the turn arrow, you can turn anyway, but must give-way to oncoming traffic. If the arrow is lit, oncoming traffic will be facing a red. There is no need for any other colour arrows. Where the turn lane is separated from the straight on lanes, two full sets of three lights side by side are used. One of our complicated intersections has the arrow either green or red. Its red when the cross traffic has been allowed to make the turn into that vertical of the T and so a turn from the other top bar of the T isnt allowed because that would mean you have to give way at times. In other words the lights don't require you to ever give way, the arrow only shows green when there is never any conflicting traffic. That would work well here, as a lot of drivers don't seem to understand that you have to give way on a green. For example there's a crossroads here I've shown befo https://goo.gl/maps/8XGD49FnQPr Drivers on the opposite side turning right have to give way to a car coming from this side going straight ahead, but they see the green light and just go. I drove straight towards one of those loonies the other week and blasted my horn. He swerved out of my way and ended up looking very embarrassed on the wrong side of the main road (about where the small silver car is in the photo, but facing the other way) right in front of the queue of traffic which shortly wanted to go forwards. He got stranded in the middle of the junction for some time while I stopped and laughed at his predicament. Another complex intersection has a railway shunting line right across it right at the lights. That one has an arrow that changes color too and it stops or allows traffic to cut across the oncoming traffic when turning. Its also a single arrow that changes color. There's something wrong when we let trains have priority over cars. Its done like that because they can't stop like cars can. They need to get decent brakes. Not even possible with any freight train. Plenty of ours have 60 40' containers fully loaded. No brakes will stop that in a few feet. |
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Lonely Psychotic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:50:15 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: Not even possible with any freight train. Plenty of ours have 60 40' containers fully loaded. No brakes will stop that in a few feet. ....and NOTHING will stop you two subnormal idiots from trolling, driveling and spreading you idiotic **** on these groups, right, senile cretin? -- Cursitor Doom about Rot Speed: "The man is a conspicuous and unashamed ignoramus." MID: |
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Lonely Psychotic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:44:28 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rot Speed,
the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH 142 lines of stinking troll**** ....and much better air in here again! -- The Natural Philosopher about senile Rot: "Rod speed is not a Brexiteer. He is an Australian troll and arsehole." Message-ID: |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:39:40 -0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 16/12/2018 15:00, Max Demian wrote: On 16/12/2018 13:33, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. I suspect they don't look *identical*, just not as distinct as to someone with normal colour vision. They would use the position to confirm which is which. Correct. Which is why colour-blindness is not even notifiable to the DVLA. Driving a train is of course totally different as braking needs to be commenced way earlier and the position of the light cannot be determined at that point. I'm not colour blind, and I don't look directly at the traffic lights. I see red or green out of the corner of my eye and act accordingly. If they suddenly became the same or very similar colours, That isnt what happens with most colorblind people. And its never suddenly with any of them, they are born with it. I'd make mistakes regularly. Yes, some colorblind people do, but its normally only with trivial stuff like not being able to pick matching sox or less frequently wearing contrasting colors that don't really go together that only normally sighted people notice. Are you saying a colour blind person already knows to look carefully at things? The microscopic subset of people that can't distinguish between red and green do if fact use which of the column of lights is lit instead of the color. I can't think of where else colour and position are that important. The most obvious is with signalling to aircraft in the days before radio communication was used. They used red or green light to indicate whether you were allowed to land or not depending on what else was using the runway. |
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Blue railway signals?
On 2018-12-16 6:10 p.m., Rod Speed wrote:
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:39:40 -0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 16/12/2018 15:00, Max Demian wrote: On 16/12/2018 13:33, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical.* You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. I suspect they don't look *identical*, just not as distinct as to someone with normal colour vision. They would use the position to confirm which is which. Correct. Which is why colour-blindness is not even notifiable to the DVLA. Driving a train is of course totally different as braking needs to be commenced way earlier and the position of the light cannot be determined at that point. I'm not colour blind, and I don't look directly at the traffic lights.* I see red or green out of the corner of my eye and act accordingly.* If they suddenly became the same or very similar colours, That isnt what happens with most colorblind people. And its never suddenly with any of them, they are born with it. I'd make mistakes regularly. Yes, some colorblind people do, but its normally only with trivial stuff like not being able to pick matching sox or less frequently wearing contrasting colors that don't really go together that only normally sighted people notice. Are you saying a colour blind person already knows to look carefully at things? The microscopic subset of people that can't distinguish between red and green do if fact use which of the column of lights is lit instead of the color. I can't think of where else colour and position are that important. The most obvious is with signalling to aircraft in the days before radio communication was used. They used red or green light to indicate whether you were allowed to land or not depending on what else was using the runway. the radio was invented first so that's just stupid , and what did they do in the day time , yell out the plane window , what a freakin jerk nosed pig footed ear grabbing habit face |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:00:21 -0000, Max Demian wrote: On 16/12/2018 13:33, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. I suspect they don't look *identical*, just not as distinct as to someone with normal colour vision. They would use the position to confirm which is which. The only colour blind person I know says red and green look IDENTICAL (presumably in his eyes the red and green receptors are shorted together somehow). They're only different if one is lighter than the other, but then light green and light red are the same, and dark red and dark green are the same, so that might depend on the traffic light design and the position of the sun. Interesting. According to wikipedia, some forms of color blindness cant see red at all so that they can't even see that the red light on a traffic light is lit, it looks like its not lit. Tho they can see green fine, so all they have to do is know that if no lights are visible, it must be showing red. And that Romania does in fact ban the color blind from driving. But the color blind are trying to get that overturned. |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:27:42 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 16/12/2018 13:37, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:30:43 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 16/12/2018 09:25, Max Demian wrote: On 15/12/2018 19:25, Johnny B Good wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:21:55 +0000, Fred Johnson wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:22:05 -0000, Max Demian wrote: ====snip==== Usually hot is on the left. Seems to be that way on all my sinks, but I'd say in other people's houses I see it the other way round in about 20% of cases. When I were a lad, the bathroom sink was definitely the other way round, can't remember the kitchen sink. Back in the day when *cold* running water was a luxury, the tap (fawcet) would be mounted on the RHS for ease of use by right handed people (the majority of the population - most left handers learn soon enough to become ambidextrous). The hot tap being a much later luxury add on had to make do with the only remaining space on the LHS. Thus was the convention of LHS hot/RHS cold tap placement born. The other way round is usually the result of lazy plumbing and pure chance. Any evidence for that? Surely they would put the single tap in the middle for symmetry. Was there ever a time when hot taps were added as an extra to an existing cold water tap, rather than installing them together? I have seen te odd one like that yes, in pretty old un-renovated properties back in the 1970s Sounds like a neat, invented explanation. That I agree with. As soon as twin taps were vthe norm for some reaosn sonmeone decided that the right hand more often than not wanted the cold tap Depends on the person. I always wash my hands in cold water, I don't see the need for hot water to dissolve a bar of soap. Some people always use hot water, for comfort I think. Prior to that the cold tap was generally either central or in an random corner Probably just depending in where the pipe happened to be. Why run it further than necessary? Mind you, you'd think a sink designed for one tap would have one hole, in one place. Sinks in them days didnt have holes They were universally butlers type china basin with just a drain hole Or maybe a galvabised tin thing - integrated tap holes and draining boards are a massively later development. My parents 1953 new build had a butltres sink on two brackets soldered lead outflow pipe and a wooden draining board on IIRC both sides. I can't remember whether it had a hot tap or not, or whether that was only for the bath and two WC basins. I do vaguely remember my grandmothers sink, in her house which I think she lived in from marriage to death, the taps were fixed to the wall behind the kitchen sink. I can't remember what the sink was like. Yeah, I've certainly seen some like that, particularly in the laundry with those big rectangular concrete sinks. https://bathrenovationhq.com/wp-cont...inishing-2.jpg In fact I can still remember my mum washing my arse in one of those when I managed to crap my pants on the way home from school when I must have been about 5. And remember the turd was still there on the footpath the next day when I walked back to school the next day. And plenty of places like that wouldn't have had a hot water tap but would have had the water heated in a big copper thing for the washing. By and large there was never any hot water unless monumental amounts of coal were heaped on the dining room fire for an hour or so., Then a 2" deep bath used by the whole shivering family resulted. Wouldn't it have been easier to go into the garden and hose each other? Unlikely many would be too keen on that approach. Or were garden hoses not available then? Available, sure, but plenty of houses here just had a rainwater tank that was filled from the roof with a tap at the bottom of the tank that you filled things from and wouldn't use that to water the garden with a hose. I wonder where this modern idea of "you must keep warm" came from. Nothing modern about using a fire to keep warm. Everyone survived cold things back then.... But werent actually stupid enough to have a cold bath every day in winter. There's a reason they had stuff like this https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00...g?v=1373706131 In fact someone I know on the net said that her dad had never had a bath or shower in his entire life. Yank. Mostly hot water was boiled on a gas stove. |
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Blue railway signals?
% wrote in message ... On 2018-12-16 6:10 p.m., Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:39:40 -0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 16/12/2018 15:00, Max Demian wrote: On 16/12/2018 13:33, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about 8% of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until tested later in life. I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green. I suspect they don't look *identical*, just not as distinct as to someone with normal colour vision. They would use the position to confirm which is which. Correct. Which is why colour-blindness is not even notifiable to the DVLA. Driving a train is of course totally different as braking needs to be commenced way earlier and the position of the light cannot be determined at that point. I'm not colour blind, and I don't look directly at the traffic lights. I see red or green out of the corner of my eye and act accordingly. If they suddenly became the same or very similar colours, That isnt what happens with most colorblind people. And its never suddenly with any of them, they are born with it. I'd make mistakes regularly. Yes, some colorblind people do, but its normally only with trivial stuff like not being able to pick matching sox or less frequently wearing contrasting colors that don't really go together that only normally sighted people notice. Are you saying a colour blind person already knows to look carefully at things? The microscopic subset of people that can't distinguish between red and green do if fact use which of the column of lights is lit instead of the color. I can't think of where else colour and position are that important. The most obvious is with signalling to aircraft in the days before radio communication was used. They used red or green light to indicate whether you were allowed to land or not depending on what else was using the runway. the radio was invented first so that's just stupid , When it was invented is irrelevant. What matters is whether it was actually required to be in the aircraft. And even when it was very common in aircraft, it was still used in the situation where the radio had failed. and what did they do in the day time , yell out the plane window , Even you should have noticed traffic lights do actually work during the day. |
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Blue railway signals?
Dave W wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:38:15 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:54:44 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: Snip Wrong, as always. I suggested only morons would choose the wrong way, and you added ******s to that list. I have kill-filed Rod Speed, with his perpetual "Wrong, as always". I implore you not to feed the trolls, so as not to subject us to pages of bickering which you will never win. You mean you haven’t worked out the Kristy is another troll? Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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