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My car has these. They can be selected by positioning the left-side steering-column stalk in the centre position. The orange lights at the front, rear and side of the car then become un-illuminated. This indicates to other road users that I do not intend to turn off the road. |
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Damn! I was hoping it would be about shaving off your moustache, allowing body hair to grow back, eating pizza, giving up Diet Coke, burning your bandanna, buying jeans with a bit of ballroom, shirts you can tuck in, and selling all of your Celine Dion CDs to a pawnbroker. |
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[angel] Unfortunately your intentions are still unknown to the person behind you. Are you going straight or did you neglect to put on your signal? |
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While I agree that this idea would eliminate that problem in theory, if people were diligent about using the signals they already had we would not need this. |
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I have a different technology in my
car. I open the sun roof, stand up
and indicate with both arms
waving vigorously back to front
that I'm going straight.
In
case the driver behind me is blind,
I also yell as loudly as I can "I'M
NOT TURNING" and hope they
understand English. |
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[blahginger]: That argument holds however many lights, signals, flags, sirens or message boards one has. If my "going straight on" signal happened to be on, does that mean that I am going straight on, or that I have forgotten to switch it off? I see people turn without showing a signal, and I see people not turn when a signal is showing. An extra signal solves nothing. |
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I was going to suggest we use brain-activity sensing technology to drive a display on the back of the car to indicate which direction the driver was intending to travel, but I realized that not all drivers really know where they are going every second they are behind the wheel. |
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Perhaps we could combine GPS and mapping functions to offer the driver the best available route for his journey with appropriate signals displayed automatically when each waypoint is encountered. If we refer to bristolz's prototype technical drawing, we see the segmeted LED message board in the center of the rear of the vehicle. This will become our only signalling device, with suitable symbols displaying the intentions of our vehicle (as karamchand so eloquently puts it), such as moving arrows for turning, stop sign for stopping, upwards arrow for accelerating, etc. (including a "don't honk at me, I'm trying to park this piece of junk" message scrolling while attempting a difficult parallel parking maneuver) |
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Leading on from the brain activity idea... perhaps the LED panel could do a quick sketch of what the driver ahead of you is thinking about? |
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It would likely solve the age-old problem of people following too closely. |
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True, but the number of times it would be showing something you *really* didn't want to see, would be substantial. |
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[klaatu] I can see why you get that
a lot. |
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