Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Counterpoint: the dumb people could have them as well.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every car needs proximity chat so traffic becomes like a COD lobby.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now there’s a Black Mirror episode with true horror!

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• psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am not trying to brake check people and get in an accident but I would very much like a signal for “Please remove your car from my butthole, it’s getting uncomfortable.”

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  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are LED bars for mounting in your rear windows to display text to those behind you

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretend to suddenly avoid a pothole.

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  • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve never done it, but I wonder if turning on the rear fog lights would work. You’re not braking, but they might think you are. I don’t know what the legality of that would be

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In some places in the world you can give it a shot and see, but we don’t have rear fog lights in the US. I’ve never seen one on any car designed for this market, and my Crosstrek just to name an example has a conspicuous filler panel over the hole where the rear fog light goes on the same model sold in other markets.

      As to why, I have no idea. But we also mandate that front fog lights can’t be configured so they can be activated without the main headlights on at the same time, which kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me. So maybe asking DOT regulations to make sense is a tall order.

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• Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like… a horn?

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  • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. I want to make my voice loud enough for me to stop at a red light and ask the guy behind me if there is a proctology emergency or if they could stop riding my ass, and savor their expression as it dawns on them what is happening.

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    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is definitely a thing. I had a friend in high-school who put a loud speaker in his 69 Tempest. He was funny too. He would say the silliest things to people.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now imagine everyone having one. Yeah, nah.

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• cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are looking for war

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  • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Road rage 5000 initiate

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to equip my vehicle with an annoyingly loud external speaker so that when someone near me does something dumb, I can personally shame them.

  CB radios often had a “PA” switch that sent your microphone audio to a loudspeaker under the hood.

  I’d prefer a “FlameThrower” button next to the horn.

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  • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah this is exactly what I have in mind. I want to feel like Smokey the Bandit calling people out for bad behavior with a receiver that has a coiled cable attached to it, at a minimum.

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  • trk@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CB radios often had a “PA” switch that sent your microphone audio to a loudspeaker under the hood

    We used to roll those back in the day. A friend gave my very drunk self a lift home one evening and I used it to give commentary to a group of revellers on the side of the road… who threw a beer bottle at us, and then chased the car which luckily didn’t get stopped at the traffic light nearby.

    Good times.

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• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, and an oil slick button that drops some oil on the road for the hard of hearing tail rider.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These exist, I used to deliver pizza and one of my coworkers installed one of these on their car.

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Liknks or didn’t happen

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    • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was similar to: www.amazon.com/…/B002UL0WH8

      And it was wired to a CB style microphone in the car. I think cops have similar setups as well.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This would seem quite risky to use on US roads.

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah but I don’t care about my life

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