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Originally Posted by gravitylover
I had a 1960 Willys CJ5 for a few years with rear facing aircraft landing lights so I didn't back of a cliff or something off road or in the snow. That thing had a max speed of ~58mph going downhill with a stiff tailwind so people would get really aggressive trying to make me go faster and run right up on my bumper. When it got really annoying I'd flip those puppies on. They would back off either because they were blinded, pissed off or because they left the road unexpectedly.
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I would never do that. That's incredibly dangerous.
To be clear, the strobes I mentioned above are just the LEDs in my tail lights, not bright flashing white strobes. They're no brighter than the normal tail lights. The TapTurn will strobe those red LEDs in various patterns when I turn on the hazard lights, including a back and forth wig-wag pattern. Since very few people have hazards with a wig-wag pattern, it confuses tailgaters. The car doesn't appear to be an emergency vehicle, but it's doing something that you normally only see on emergency vehicles or utility/construction trucks.
It helps in many cases, without causing someone to run off the road.
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Originally Posted by geezerbrzeezer
I agree with the desire and the righteousness of wanting to strike back (pun intended), but doing so risks unintentionally elevating yourself from a benign irritant treated as any other by these ultramaroons, to an active threat that demands focus and targeting.
Please don't do this, unless your car and life really don't matter to you and yours.
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A very strange response. If someone is tailgating me, I'm already in danger. I really don't see how a rear-facing horn would increase that danger. Like the strobes, it would more likely confuse the tailgater, since the horn would seem to be coming from the front of their own vehicle.