Re: Leviton "Air Gap Switch" on Dimmer Controls

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

"Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> While it seem to some that such stuff is totally not useful, we have to
> keep in mind that some user of such device could in fact have difficulty
> understanding the risk they take while changing a light bulb...
>
> Just think that a driver of a Winnebago did hurt himself and won in court
> after placing his RV in autopilot (cruise control) and started making his
> next meal in the back of the RV...
>
> Like someone here like to say, it's not rocket science, but it's still
> more then crushing a skull with a club...
>
>

I think that the Winnebago/cruise control incident is an urban legend that
has been around in various forms for decades.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/business/fi-tortmyths14

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp

Doug