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I am considering one of these: Black Finish 4 Horn Kit & 1.5 Gallon Tank/Compressor Combo
Just not too sure if I can find a place to mount it. Check out the videos while you are on the site. Those guys are nuts. Any time you pull up behind someone and lay down on a locomotive horn, you are going to get a reaction!!!
that would be so funny with a smart car with train horns. If you put them on the back of the car you might increase gas mileage!!(when you use them) LOL
I know there isn't much car behind the seat, but it seems like nearly every day or two I have some jerk riding my butt!
Yes, almost daily. I also get people hanging out in the 2nd lane of traffic on my left; starting to pass, then slow down, then speed up and etc. But it is when the tailgaters are also on the cell phone that I get the most nervous!
The first time it happened to me, I was muttering "get off my arse" into the rearview mirror, and then realized, he wasn't on my arse. My Smart doesn't have an arse. He was a couple of carlengths behind.
What really bothers me is people pulling up alongside and then drifting into my lane, as they have a goggle at me. It's like they completely forget where and what they're doing.
Monday afternoon, someone deliberately tried to run me off the road, and then hung his head out the window laughing at me as I very clearly mouthed every obscenity I knew at him. That really shook me up. However, looking at him and the beater of a van he was driving, I figure karma had already had its way with him.
Could it be just the fact that there isn't a backseat so everything looks closer? It's been quite awhile since I have driven a smaller car, but I rember when I switched to my Pathfinder that it seemed everyone was riding so much further back from my bumper. Of course, it could just be you getting adjusted from a huge truck to something one-fifth the size!
if they are just checking out the car i let it go but, if they are tailgating to be stupid or trying to intimidate me, i just slow down(say im going 70 on the freeway, i'll slow down to 55) without hitting the brakes and soon enough they will go around. no need for avian hand gestures, or slamming the brakes.
that would be so funny with a smart car with train horns. If you put them on the back of the car you might increase gas mileage!!(when you use them) LOL
No such problems. Of course, I usually do 70's and zip around everyone whenever I get the chance. If I do encounter someone going faster than me I just move out of the way.
Otherwise I spend my drive home running circles around the land yachts....
I am a tad concerned with this as around Here in the last 14 years I have been rear ended 5 times...IN my Giant 4x4...it is actually funny in that I never seem to have damage while my drop down 2.5" ball usually destroys the brain dead cell operators radiator and a lot of expensive plastic
Because of these experiences I pay real close attention to the rear in several traffic situations when I can tell the driver behind is not actually driving his or her car
I plan my escape and evasive action until I can find a way to let this numskull pass or I just exit stage left or right and go a different way if possible...
Bad example and please do not do this as in todays world you are likely to get shot... but a few years back this long haired Tattooed Harley rider would carry a pocket full of 3/4" steel ball bearings... cage drivers that encroached on what I considered my space usually lost a radiator or windshield as a Marble accidentally fell out of my vest pocket
Seriously this a not a good way to deal with inconsiderate or dangerous drivers...
One of those idiots that had a spidery wind shield pulled along side and pointed a pistol at my wifes head.... That was enough of a significant event to make me seriously rethink how to deal with idiots... and to tell the truth I would have been devastated if one of my "marbles" had caused a bigger accident or put glass shards in a child's eye in the back seat that I did not see....
Be careful out there ...pay attention, plan your escape, buckle up, and if all else fails follow Fred's third rule of life
I take some of what I learned in Motorcycle Safety Foundation Classes and use it when driving other vehicles.
Someone following too close? Slow down and allow more stopping room between myself and the vehicle I'm behind. This gives me more reaction time and can save my rear end. In many cases if I'm being tail gated and I slow down, they'll pass. Then I can go back along my merry way. And i had to get over the whole, "I have the right of way" mentality. Because on a motorcycle vs. anything the motorcycle will usually lose even if I did have the right of way. So I drive like I'm invisible. If I assume NO ONE sees me and knows I'm there then I'm always on the alert for what other idiots might do. Like yesterday I was headed straight down Lancaster towards I-20 from the VA hospital. I saw a woman at a stop sign waiting to turn right onto Lancaster. I had the right of way. Looking at her front tires I saw her getting ready to pull right out in front of me. Since I couldn't change to another lane I hit the brakes. Though I did lay on the horn I'm doubtful that little pitiful sound did much. She did wave to apologize when I got in the other lane to pass her. Remember with a smaller vehicle you'll seem further away than you are. Make sure to glance at front tires to see if they're going to pull out in front of you. It's a better indicator than looking at the driver.
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