Adjust Brake Lights??

For that, you just need to rig up some home version of a police speed gun on your dash, no sense in relying on the other guy to tell you. I think some cruise control systems in modern luxury cars already do this.. they match your speed to the car in front of you.

It seems like it'd be quite trivial to modify such a system to report what the guy in front is doing.

...................That's not a bad idea. Maybe you could even incorporate an audible alarm when there's a very large difference in your speed and the vehicle up ahead. Those big pile-ups involving several vehicles when there's fog or smoke would be less likely, I'd bet.

I have thought of a graduated brake light, that glows as bright red as the driver is applying the brakes. Dull red for "I'm just covering my brake", brighter as the driver applies more braking force, etc. And maybe bright and blinking while the ABS is pulsing the brakes, cause the moron driver is standing on the brake pedal!! ;-)

John Kuthe...

True, but I'd bet most people when "covering" their brake do not just let their foot dangle above the pedal, but press slightly on it to take up the freeplay and feel the pedal on their foot. And this is what takes the pedal off it's stop and thus actuates the brakelights, even though mo braking action is yet occuring.

John Kuthe...

How about using a small accellerometer (sp?) as a brake-light switch? It would be completely separate from the brake system itself and come on anytime the car was decellerating.

Max

Let's fix the problem at the source. Take the airbags from every SUV on the road and place them on the outside of the vehicle. Then place a large spike in the center of the steering wheel. Following distances would increase overnight.

Max

..................heh heh.........You're an evil old son of a gun.

.........I like that.

Some manufacturers have already come up with that type of technology in a laser measurement system, it slows the rear car down if too close to anything, even another car.........LOL This is being tested , If I'm not mistaken, on Toyotas...............Corrolla sized cars and such.

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On 29 Jan 2004 15:56:32 GMT, Seth Graham ran around screaming and yelling:

so most if not all of us here at ramva drive old cars because we like to *drive*...but we dream up ways to take the driving out of the drivers hands? makes no sense to me...we need to build better drivers, not better cars....i think it was Maudib that said to put the airbag on the bumper and a steel spike in the middle of the steering wheel, that would make people drive a bit smarter...(if it wasn't Maudib that said that i appologise to the person that did) JT

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:20:18 -0700, Max Welton ran around screaming and yelling:

"i *KNEW* i should have read the entire thread before replying..." JT(who agrees with max)

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:52:46 GMT, John Kuthe ran around screaming and yelling:

you are probably correct John....but that can be good...that way you know they could jam the brakes for no reason...better to be warned way ahead of time...... JT

....................I'm glad that you've decided to agree with me Chris.

........Life is good................lol

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:48:44 -0500, "Tim Rogers" ran around screaming and yelling:

Well Tim you aren't as dumb as i say you are *all* the time(just most of the time)....LOL

"John Kuthe" wrote

I remember ads in Cycle magazine back in the `80s for a product called `Cyberlight' .... at least I think that was the name, it's been a long time. It was an add-on brake light that flashed slowly if you were gently braking and flashed progressively faster as you braked harder. I don't remember the particulars but I suppose it used an accelerometer.

-- Scott

The best idea that I have heard in a long time. I think that could be justified as part of the process of natural selection for idiots that drive SUVs. During the winter snow, the SUV drivers think that they are invincible, and have a feeling of superiority far higher than they normally do. Bill Berckman Cincinnati VW/Porsche Family Reunion Show 2003 Pictures

On 30 Jan 2004 05:46:15 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comSPAMOUT (Bill Berckman) ran around screaming and yelling:

and they get pissed when they end up in the ditch...."how could this happen, i drive a *SUV*?" JT

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