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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>COAST... by all
means!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>If possible, turn off
the engine and <EM>glide</EM> through in neutral if you're that
paranoid!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Chances are that
"camera" is an IR spectrometer which is checking for excess HC in the exhaust
plume... maybe even excess CO as well... depending on how fanatical the
state-EPA is and how well-funded.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>D.O.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jabbatruck@gmail.com href="mailto:jabbatruck@gmail.com">Jabba Truck</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=syty@syty.org href="mailto:syty@syty.org">SyTy List</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 16, 2005 12:51 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Syty] Freeway on-ramp emission test</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT><BR></DIV>Sometimes when I
head home from work, there's a box truck parked along the freeway on-ramp,
connected to some sort of sensing device pointed across the ramp, and what
appears to be a camera pointed towards the accelerating vehicles' rear license
plates. Some tripod-mounted temporary road signs declare that it is
an emissions testing area.<BR><BR>Assuming that this is set up to record some
sort of violation, if a motorist had a marginal system, from say, an adjustable
fuel pressure regulator adjusted for too much pressure, would it be better to
coast through the measuring device, or accelerate through it?<BR><BR>I don't
believe I have anything to worry about with my tailpipe, and the truck is
visible enough that you can see it in enough time to switch lanes and wait until
the next ramp to get on the freeway, but my curiosity is getting to
me.<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR>Jay<BR>
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