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In traffic, you can't always immediately tell where the sound of another car's horn is coming from and who they're beeping at. Having the hi-beams (full beams) hooked up to strobe when the horn-button is pressed during the day, and the front turn signals do the same at night, in addition to the regular
honk, would make for a safer driving experience all-round. May also curtail anonymous annoyance-honks.
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Because it's not always a good eyedea to overload somebody's pupils who is driving near you, I prefer it rapidly flashing your lights on and off. |
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//Having the hi-beams ("driving lights" to you Brits, I believe) //
I call driving lights "dipped headlights", and full-beam, well, full-beam.
What does "hi-beam" mean? |
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Sorry, but this gets a bone from me. Maybe a special LED cluster
on the roof of the car that lights up, but hi-beams at point blank
are likely to blind a driver and exacerbate the problem you
honked at him for in the first place. |
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err "full beam" then : the ones that drive you bonkers at night when wielded by other people. |
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[post edited to make it the front signal flashers that flash during the nighttime and "strobe" substituted for "flash" at strategic points - silly computer where's my brain interface gone to] |
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I like the updated version. Now if we could reduce both the amount of people who honk needlessly, and the amount of people who prompt needful honking... |
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// May also curtail anonymous annoyance-honks.// Or increase them. |
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heheh, not revised so much as better explained. |
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[Gamma48] with strobing headlights it's a bit difficult to be an anonymous honker. |
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Dang, I was attracted here under false pretenses. |
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The car horn should be connected to a roof-mounted bubble-blower, rather than the headlights. This would counteract the slightly aggressive horn with a little frivolity. |
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(Dub, get cher mind outta the gutter;-)
I love this idea, and I would venture a guess it will come to fruition in some form or another, in future cars. (That said our ambulances already have lights that flash with the siren, horns can't be far behind.) |
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//will come to fruition//
it's going on my car after (or possibly during if I happen to be puttering around with the electrics) everything else is fixed. Gotta run it through my mental stomachs a few more times though: the "turn signals strobe at night" was a just a quick fix; it might be better to strobe headlights between "current setting" and off ("nighttime" determined by the headlights being on in the first place of course). And there is dawn/evening to consider (which may be the best place to put the "parking(/turn) lights" strobing). |
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I like the idea of a horn that sounds awfully like a gigantic pig being stuck. Could be kinda hard to explain to the cops, though. |
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Seeing this idea again just reminded me of Jimmy Pianta's wedding. We wired the horn on his car to the brakelight circuit, so the horn sounded every time he touched the brakes as he drove off with his new wife. Oh dear, we laaaauuughed! |
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