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<p>[quote user="tdmidget"]</p> <p> Re: the Nevada driver's handbook. What part of "always" do you not understand?</p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">"  But, as I say, yielding does not necessarily require a driver to slow down."</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">What planet are you from? "Yield" means be prepared to stop. If that requires slowing down, then it is indeed required.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">One of the required conditions in Nevada for a complete stop is when a train "clearly visible". Nuff said here I guess, hard to hit one that isn't clearly visible.</span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">tdmidget,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for your lively reply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, if a train is coming, then there is a stop requirement, but we are talking about what a driver is supposed to do when a train is not coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I am talking about the normal required driver routine at this crossing, not the specific action of the driver in the crash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regarding that point; you say that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">IF</span> yielding requires slowing down, then it is indeed required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So from your own words, it follows that if yielding does <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> require slowing down, then slowing down is not required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">That is what I meant when I said, “yielding does <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT NECESSARILY</span> require a driver to slow down.” </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">So we are saying the same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Yield only means “give way.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That requires a driver to be prepared to give way or even stop if necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If the visibility is limited to what a driver is supposed to give way to, then a driver must not exceed the speed at which it is possible to give way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If that speed is the speed limit or higher, the the driver may properly yield without slowing down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p>
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