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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects
Message-ID: <3232@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 11:47:33 GMT
References: <768@xroads.UUCP> <20556@cup.portal.com> <14053@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
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Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <14053@haddock.ima.isc.com> kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) writes:
>In article <20556@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) says:
>>How about a switch on the dashboard which turns on your brake lights when
>>being tailgated?
>
>Naah. I gotta 400K CP Q-beam for when I feel adverse to that (I ain't no
>slowpoke, so if you're tailgating me, you must have to go REAL bad).
>A better idea, one I keep saying Real Soon Now to is a momentary switch
>placed on the steering wheel that *disables* your brake lights, say for
>the times your radar detector goes off on a full instant-on blast and
>full braking power is required (80-55 in under 2 sec oughta fool the
>gun :-), actually works, ya know), without triggering the lights, which
>gives the cop a little more drive in his quest for revenue enhancement.

DO NOT DO THIS!!!!  If you modifiy your brake lights, either to turn 
them on or off, if you do this and someone gets hurt, and if this is 
mod is discovered then you would be criminally liable. Worst yet, if 
someone was killed you could be facing man slaughter or murder charges.
You could face thoses charges anyway, but it would be made worse by the
discovery of this mod, even if you didn't use it.

I had a friend that use the Q beam trick, he spent a night in jail
after he flashed a cop.
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Jack 		Computer Support Corportion		Dallas,Texas 
Hudler		UUCP: {texsun,texbell,attctc}!csccat!jack