Yes I know discussing lawsuits is fine, but if you remember last time we discussed lawsuits about EV equipment usage... well, here's some samples:
Your only concern ought to be clearing the road ahead and making certain people know you are there. Other considerations, like not bothering people, are of no importance by comparison.
All this crap about not being able to hear sirens is bull.
If you are driving through a residential street, I totally understand wanting to silence the siren, and I'm not objecting to that. It's when you're in a large street that having the siren off bothers me.
Understand that you're risking human lives by not giving a blast of the siren occasionally.
Why not sound the siren all the time and just pay attention to your driving!
You sound like your driving with the attention of a person on a cell phone trying to decide when and when not to sound the siren! LEAVE IT ON!
JUST USE THE SIREN!!!!! IF THERE IS ONLY ONE "WHAT IF" THEN THAT'S ONE TOO MANY. BE SMART AND BE HEARD! WOULD YOU WANT A TRAIN LOOKING FOR CARS AND NOT BLOWING THE HORN. NO WAY. I WOULD WANT TO KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I ENCOUNTER A TRAIN IT WILL BE HEARD. I THINK OF EV'S THE SAME WAY. I NEVER WANT MY FAMILY STRUCK BY A PATROL CAR, AMBULANCE, FIRTRUCK, OR ANYTHING DRIVING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT AND DISREGAURDING THE TRAFFIC LAWS WITHOUT WARNING ME AUDIBLY EVERY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My apologies to Robert for bringing this back up, but I don't want it to happen again. Learn from our past experiences people!
Anyways, back on topic.
Personally, I prefer LED TAs (traffic advisors) over halogen, due to the power needed to run the halogens as compared to the LEDs. Plus, LEDs are much brighter and don't experience that "lag time" that occurs when a regular halogen turns on or off. LED's can flash much more intricate patterns. Personally, I once saw a TA that, instead of keeping all the lights on, it did a "chase" pattern (only one section on at a time) that had a sort of "quad flash" when the section turned on. Maybe I'll make a GIF image of it. It was really, really cool (but probably ineffective).
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