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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects
Message-ID: <5170050@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 19:30:30 GMT
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mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>How about a switch on the dashboard which turns on your brake lights when
>being tailgated?  Easy to install, because the standard switch is located
>on the brake master cylinder, a few inches away from your foot.
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Gee, I already have this switch on all my cars.  It doesn't turn the 
lights on constantly, but flashes them.  It's the emergency flasher.
I've used this on occasion when being tailgated, and it generally is
effective.  If the animals really want to tailgate, they ignore it but
it doesn't hack them off too badly.  (What's worse than a tailgater?
A mad tailgater.)  If they were just absent-mindedly following too
closely, it gets their attention and they back off.