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A cure for road rage ??????

alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Christianburg, Virginia-AP -- Some researchers in Virginia are looking at ways to get rid of road rage.

The team at Virginia Tech and Radford University is testing a system that uses green lights mounted in vehicles to send messages to other drivers.

The system of blinks is called the "Inter-vehicular Courtesy Communication Code."

One blink of the light means "please" as in, "please let me into your lane." Two blinks mean "thanks" and three blinks mean "sorry."

No one has said what a four-blinker word might mean.

The goal is to defuse a moment often linked to road rage, that moment when one driver cuts in front of another.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded 100-thousand dollars to the researchers.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice idea but I think people would make their own signs,and it would some how learn to use bad signals and make matters worse. If you drive with courtesy now those people would use it correctly.But if your not I dont think a light on your vehicle will change your attitude.

    Best!!



    Just my 2 cents

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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That won't work for me.

    I Drive Offensively.

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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    STOP BLINKING AT ME YOU SOB!!!!! I'm gonna tear that light off your hood and cram it up your...................

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    One day, I am going to find a 100 watt siren box and speaker cheap enough and install it on my truck. I don't care about the siren, but the PA feature with 100 watts driving it would be pretty cool.

    There is just so much that a horn cannot say.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If all those damned idiots wouldn't try to cut me off, I wouldn't be in such a bad mood! Making their cars look like mobile Christmas trees won't do a bloody thing for me. What a touching, PC way to deal with the problem of fools on the road. I much prefer the middle finger & loud horn method of communication; at least it works for me - especially when I'm behind the wheel of a big, battle-scarred old 4x4 with a plow frame mounted on the front.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Only 4 stoplights in our town. There is no way,,son I say no way that I would live in a city that I had to fight traffic for an hour or two each day just to get to work. Life is too short!!
    Sign me sodbuster,,countryboy, hick.

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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Horn broke, watch for finger.


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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sodbuster you be in a city, we gots 4 street lights and no stop lights (heck we ain't even gots a blinking light lesson yous counts the one in the winder of the bar).
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sodbuster,,CitySlicker,,Urban Cowboy,,utopian triggersqueezer,,

    "Just my opinion."
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mr.Nunn I know a guy who did just that he wired his intercom into his car alarm siren.Ive never had aaanybody make me laugh as hard as he does when he gets on that thing.Ive seen him ride past cops and start oinking I was surprised because the first time I saw him do it I thought we were in for it but the cop laughed and shot us the bird.It is good fun and definately a wy to voice your opinion on the deralicts(Spelling?) of the road even if we are too.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Driving on California streets will not allow my middle finger any rest. Kinda weird how that happens.


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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Living in Comifornia your middle finger is about the only weapon youve got anymore...lol.We do so much flipping off down here its like waving hey.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Yeah, my hometown is Pensacola FL so I know what you're saying. It's all them transplants that you "wave" at.


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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh you meen the SSSSSIIIIIILLLLIIIIICCCCCOOOONNNNNEEEEEE!Love the scenary around P-Cola.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Sure do hate what they've done with memorial day.


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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Or by transplants did you meen the senior citizens..lol

    Eric S. Williams
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nunn; it will work wonders. I put an old C.B. in my vehicle, never did hook up an antenna, I just wanted it for the P.A. I put a P.A. speaker under the hood, in front of the radiator. When you are sitting at a light and let EVERYONE know what that stupid person just did, the perp looks like a real idiot. A lot of times other people saw them do it, and I have had them honk and yell "YA STUPID"One of my favorites "GET OFF THE PHONE AND DRIVE"

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmm . . . and I have an old CB from the 4x4 the youngest totaled . . . Now this sounds like a fun project . . . .
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We recently had a fatality here wherein the driver was killed when, as the newspaper reported, he attempted to "merge into the left lane," whereupon his SUV hit a Buick sedan and went out of control, killing him.

    My immediate reaction was, there is no such thing as "merging" into the passing lane. If you're being passed, you wait until they're done. In this state it is illegal to speed up, even inadvertently, while being passed. So how could a guy possibly be "merging" into the PASSING lane? The fool was trying to squeeze into a faster line of cars in the left lane, most likely, and paid too high a price for cutting somebody off.

    Road rage? What's that? The cure for road rage finally comes with a dose of reality. People only FEEL impervious in those cars; they're really not at all. I once saw a guy get out at a stoplight after two sports cars had been playing games in traffic and jam the other fellow in the head a number of times with a night stick. I guess he wasn't playing. Of course he was pulled over by the cops down the road after he got his licks in.

    A 2000-lb. automobile, used against another person in any focused way, can easily create a dead-serious infraction called assault with a deadly weapon, and the assaulted may respond accordingly -- no doubt to the selfish driver's complete surprise. Over-aggressive driving only works on drivers too civilized to respond in kind, and since you can't read their minds you can't know when they feel seriously threatened. I'm not one of those who is more of a gentleman than the other driver is willing to be, at times. But I won't fly off the handle either, because as a CCW holder (and for reasons of common sense) I can't and won't. But you better choose a different victim, because justice will be served. Whether I pick up a weapon or a cell phone depends upon the nature of the insanity or idiocy I'm imminently confronting. If I don't pick up the phone, which I usually don't, your reckless driving has not exceeded what I see on an average day in traffic. If I do pick up the phone, you're special. Like weaving through traffic at 95, or something.

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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 07/21/2002 15:44:07
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have to laugh at the CB idea. I've thought of it myself. Much better than a bumper sticker, and with a more immediate effect. You could, and I say COULD, even make a loud siren noise into it at an appropriate moment -- oooOOOOOOO-WEEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOoooo .....

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    keep honking i am reloading lol

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