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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Is there an accepted way of getting the moron behind you to turn their high beams off? Flashing my lights off and on never works. If I think it's safe, I'll speed up until I'm out of range, or if I don't, I'll slow down to compensate for the loss of night vision and wait for them to realize it when they go to flash the jerk they're tailgating at 40km/h under. It works a lot of the time, and if it ends with me getting passed I resume normal speed and am slow to turn off my highs because I am a child.
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Sadly it was a 1-lane 25mph road, not too many options. He turned his brights on to flash someone who cut him off behind me and just never turned them off, the whole 10 minutes on that road.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:16
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Mount a strobe in the rear?
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Mar 29, 2018 01:29
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Mount a strobe in the rear? When I was in high school I had a giant flashlight that was like 3 million candle power or something. Real good at convincing tailgaters to back up.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:00
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Is there an accepted way of getting the moron behind you to turn their high beams off? Flashing my lights off and on never works. I want a rear window louver set that is completely mirrored on the bottom side. Whenever someone is behind me with obnoxious lights, push a button and all the louvers rotate, controlled by a computer to automatically reflect the light a few feet above the plane of the source light.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:05
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nsaP posted:When I was in high school I had a giant flashlight that was like 3 million candle power or something. Real good at convincing tailgaters to back up. I mean I could flash my little LED flashlight at them but I also feel like that's a good way to end up with an involuntary manslaughter charge
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Mar 29, 2018 02:09
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I've often idly contemplated the difficulty of rigging up an old camera flash in the rear window that I could set off with a button. Knew a guy ages ago who claimed to keep a carton of BBs in his truck and throw a handful out the window whenever somebody was tailgating him.
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Mar 29, 2018 04:26
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Something I've often wondered about is brake lights that get brighter the harder you brake. I'm sure there's a good reason not to use them that escape me, but it seems like a useful thing. Is the car in front of me baking gently or are they trying desperately to avoid rear-ending the dude in front I can't see? Hell, it could even help you tell a tailgater to back the hell off without them having to notice the sudden speed differential. If they're just an rear end in a top hat they'll still be able to try and pass, and if they're just oblivious they'll be able to maybe see that they're too loving close.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:05
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sleepy.eyes posted:Something I've often wondered about is brake lights that get brighter the harder you brake. I'm sure there's a good reason not to use them that escape me, but it seems like a useful thing. Is the car in front of me baking gently or are they trying desperately to avoid rear-ending the dude in front I can't see? Hell, it could even help you tell a tailgater to back the hell off without them having to notice the sudden speed differential. If they're just an rear end in a top hat they'll still be able to try and pass, and if they're just oblivious they'll be able to maybe see that they're too loving close. Mostly because of the time it takes you to register and react to brake lights is much shorter than the time to analyze the brake light brightness and trying to determine how hard the person is braking. But a lot of new cars will throw on the hazards if you brake really hard.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:14
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Javid posted:Knew a guy ages ago who claimed to keep a carton of BBs in his truck and throw a handful out the window whenever somebody was tailgating him. I definitely did not do this with paintballs, exiting via sunroof.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:48
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I was considering painting my rear bumper with the reflective paint emergency services use.  Or attach a heap of white bezel reflectors. Or a mirror on the back of my headrests. Or one of those LED light bars on top of my rear window "to help with reversing at night, officer". But nothing gets across "Turn off your goddamn highbeams" which is also legal and effective. Now I just slow down until they overtake. Taking the civilised option is always the best - just not the most satisfying. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 10:51
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Gorilla Salad posted:I was considering painting my rear bumper with the reflective paint emergency services use. I saw a guy here who had a 1' square of SOLAS retroreflective material on a piece of cardboard. He held it up when a brotruck was tailgating and that dude backed away pretty quick. I bet it seemed like the guy was holding up a million-candlepower flashlight, but it was just the brotruck's high beams going straight back at him.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I was considering painting my rear bumper with the reflective paint emergency services use. I was thinking of doing this but i'm not sure about the legality. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5cm...2818816167.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Pur...2594086526.html
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Mar 29, 2018 11:08
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jamal posted:Mostly because of the time it takes you to register and react to brake lights is much shorter than the time to analyze the brake light brightness and trying to determine how hard the person is braking. I've seen flashing center brake lights as well. All pretty good stuff. Typically if I have to brake very hard I'll throw the hazards on once I'm under control to let everyone know to watch out.
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Mar 29, 2018 12:16
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sleepy.eyes posted:Something I've often wondered about is brake lights that get brighter the harder you brake. I'm sure there's a good reason not to use them that escape me, but it seems like a useful thing. Is the car in front of me baking gently or are they trying desperately to avoid rear-ending the dude in front I can't see? Hell, it could even help you tell a tailgater to back the hell off without them having to notice the sudden speed differential. If they're just an rear end in a top hat they'll still be able to try and pass, and if they're just oblivious they'll be able to maybe see that they're too loving close. Information overload is a thing. People will get paralyzed with indecision when there's too much information to process. Keeping it to the minimum necessary makes it easier for people to react and makes for safer roads.
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Mar 29, 2018 14:59
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Flashing brake lights is starting to become more of a thing and it's amusing to see the halfassed implementations some badges are coming up with. I think it was a GM minivan I saw where all three tail lights flickered off and on four times every time the driver touched the brakes, no matter the speed. So if you're stuck behind them at a stop light and they're the type of driver that creeps forward constantly, you get a nonstop red flashing in your face. 
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Mar 29, 2018 15:25
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My dad installed one of those relays for his center brake light. 4 quick flashes, 4 longer flashes, and then solid. I think it was advertised as for motorcyclists. He got them so people would notice him and not rear end him, still doesnt use his turn signal half the time. 
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Mar 29, 2018 15:39
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xzzy posted:Flashing brake lights is starting to become more of a thing and it's amusing to see the halfassed implementations some badges are coming up with. If it flashed every time they tapped the brakes I'd put my money on an aftermarket brake flasher module being the culprit.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:46
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For tailgaters, something I read about somewhere suggested a switch to manually turn on the reverse indicator lights. I got ticketed way back when for "glaring white light to the rear" (Montana, early '90s, busted red brake light cover bu working light) so I'm a little leery for that kind of fuckery. Maybe a little squeezebulb and a length of hose to spray castor oil onto the muffler... (Current go-to is "
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Mar 29, 2018 17:51
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Is there an accepted way of getting the moron behind you to turn their high beams off? Flashing my lights off and on never works. Point my mirrors at them, set my cruise for dead on the speed limit and turn my podcast volume up.
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Mar 29, 2018 17:58
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Dr.Caligari posted:Something stupid I witnessed... quote:The driver of the red Honda said,”I felt a small bump then I was staring into a Semi’s grill. I just expected to be dead soon.” same
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Mar 29, 2018 18:16
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If the guy basically PIT-ed himself on the front of the semi as described there probably wasn't really that much impact force, it'd be basically like a fender bender plus flat-spotted tires. Still probably loving scary, but not really all that risky assuming the truck didn't then run them both in to something else.
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Mar 29, 2018 18:47
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xzzy posted:Flashing brake lights is starting to become more of a thing and it's amusing to see the halfassed implementations some badges are coming up with. It's a GM minivan. The events you described were not part of the original intention.
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I was under the impression those flashing-center-brake-light things were entirely aftermarket since they aren't actually street legal. But as long as we're on the topic of the lights on the back of a car, I wish all manufacturers would have a proper yellow flasher instead of just blinking the red light. There's a car up ahead that I can only see half of, and his taillight just turned bright for a moment. Did he tap his brakes or turn on his signal? It takes an extra second to find out. It's not that big a deal, of course, but it could be eliminated entirely if all the car makers would do like they do in the rest of the world outside North America, and just have yellow indicator lights all around.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:05
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My Transit Connect has red rear fog lights I can activate that are easily mistakable for brake lights, perfect for tailgaters.
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I'd like a loving strobe light that is only visible when someone is too close. Tailgating solved, people.
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Mar 30, 2018 07:08
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Just popped up on my fb feed:  Car ahead of them kicked up a chunk of steel that went through their (empty) passenger side.
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Mar 30, 2018 15:35
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Another reminder that we're only seconds away from death at any moment while driving.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:20
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Protocol7 posted:Another reminder that we're only seconds away from death at any moment while driving. At any moment period, really. Any second now the Chinese space station could fall out of the sky and hit you in the head.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:41
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Just popped up on my fb feed: Is that the metal part of a lane marker reflector...?
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Mar 30, 2018 18:03
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The universe is genuinely trying to kill you every second of your life. Not with any intent, it's just an unimaginably hostile environment that somehow acquired a pocket of slightly less lethal conditions (which promptly developed its own chaotic system of everything trying to kill everything else). We are all colossal badasses for having survived as long as we have.
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Powershift posted:At any moment period, really. Hell, there's enough satellites and space junk surrounding this rock that any one of those could probably do it, provided it doesn't burn up on re-entry.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:14
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Geoj posted:Is that the metal part of a lane marker reflector...? Looks like it. 
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Mar 30, 2018 18:24
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Does insurance cover that kind of poo poo? What would it even count as? I wonder if you could sue the organization responsible for maintaining that road, that seems pretty loving negligent.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:29
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Does insurance cover that kind of poo poo? What would it even count as? She'll probably end up getting reprimanded for absconding with Highway Department property.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:49
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She should go to her local red fingernail brigade and tell them it almost killed a child.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:51
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Does insurance cover that kind of poo poo? What would it even count as? I think this sort of thing would be covered by comprehensive coverage.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:52
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Comedy taking a claim against the highway department option?
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Being Easter means the area around my house gets piles of tourists appearing for the break. They seem to loose all semblance of road sense though as they walk in front of your car and expect you to not move. Chinese tourists are particularly bad as they don’t worry at all about cars and walk through the Centre of car parks in herds
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Fermented Tinal posted:She should go to her local red fingernail brigade and tell them it almost killed a child. I really want to know what this means but I feel like maybe also I dont
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