Anti-Tailgating Button project

[BlueCivic83]

just read about it somewere online ...

it's a momentary button you place that when pushed will turn your brake lights on and fool the guy tailgating you into braking...

going to do it on my civic especialy since i have this momentary button laying their unused, i'll post some pics later if i get it done today

[Civic Jim]

just rest ur foot on the brakes lightly, or if its day time, turn on your lights

[ci5ic]

Originally posted by BlueCivic83
just read about it somewere online ...

it's a momentary button you place that when pushed will turn your brake lights on and fool the guy tailgating you into braking...

going to do it on my civic especialy since i have this momentary button laying their unused, i'll post some pics later if i get it done today

Um... your car already has a button like that... it's called a brake pedal. A slight tap with your foot will flash your brake lights just fine.

I talked to this one guy who said that he had some kind of old domestic car hot rod type vehicle, and he said he rigged up a bunch of those old flash-bulbs on his rear deck with a capacitor and a switch, and if someone tail-gated him, he'd flip a switch and **POOF** blinding light. The guy was a notorious shit-talker, so I don't really believe that he actually did it, but it's a great idea, and you could probably go to a pawn shop, pick up a camera and take the flash unit out of it and rig it up back there somehow...

Just make sure it's not a cop who's riding your ass.

I've also thought about mounting a driving light on the rear, but that would look ugly as hell.

[darolh]

I just use my left foot. If they don't get the idea then I give the brakes a quick hard jab with my left foot which also throws in a bit of nose dive to scare the shit out of them.

It is illlegal to turn on lights while driving on the back of your car that are not brake lights and running lights, turn signals, etc. I had a fog light for a reversing light on a car I had and had to prove to a cop the only way it came on was in reverse.

[dirtydx]

a friend of mine wanted to install a foghorn on the back lol

[EFStali]

if someones tailgating you just fucking rev your engine..hell all of our cars make a loud fucking noise...that'll get um to back off.

[4-Door Flunky]

I'm against the 'brake check' maneuver.
The person on your ass is already in a bad mental state. Brake checking makes it worse. Your brake lights could make him totally freak out, swerve to one side, and hit somebody else.
I recommend speeding up and moving into another lane at the first opportunity.
You're already mad at him for tailgating...show some strength and maturity by NOT playing the game.
Flunky
PS-A total asshole former-friend was a big fan of the brake check. While he was watching the rearview mirror to watch the guy freak out, he rear-ended the car in front of him, totalling his new Del Sol.

[4-Door Flunky]

When I was a truck driver, my fantasy was the Trans-O-Matic.
You take a General Motors Turbo-hydromatic 400 (automatic transmission) and bolt some big hooks to the bell housing.
Then, you suspend the transmission under the back of your vehicle, using a cable you can yank on from inside the vehicle.
When an asshole or cop is tailgating you, you pull the cable, dumping the 300-pound transmission onto the road.
The guy's front end rides up on the ramp-shaped transmission, lifting the front wheels off the ground. The hooks hold it in place.
And he goes sliding off the road.
Ahh, such a lovely fantasy...
Flunky

[ci5ic]

Originally posted by 4-Door Flunky
When I was a truck driver, my fantasy was the Trans-O-Matic.
You take a General Motors Turbo-hydromatic 400 (automatic transmission) and bolt some big hooks to the bell housing.
Then, you suspend the transmission under the back of your vehicle, using a cable you can yank on from inside the vehicle.
When an asshole or cop is tailgating you, you pull the cable, dumping the 300-pound transmission onto the road.
The guy's front end rides up on the ramp-shaped transmission, lifting the front wheels off the ground. The hooks hold it in place.
And he goes sliding off the road.
Ahh, such a lovely fantasy...
Flunky

Wasn't that in one of James Bonds cars?

just kidding.

[Melt]

what i really want to rig up is a cable and a shitload of nails, so i can yank a cable in the car and then the nails go out the back.

[origamiguru]

hehehehe, the nails one is a pretty funny one, although it would also end up getting normal drivers who were (at a reasonable distance) away from the tailer.

How 'bout a few paintball guns? a (few) small holes or pipes sticking out the back of your car woudn't seem too obvious if placed strategically. If done well, you could set up a fake 'dual exhaust' system, the left side is your real exhaust, the right side is a 3" paint shotgun.

We can all dream, right?

-Adam.

[crxlvr]

i knew someone who wired up a light that said "BACK OFF MY ASS" when he flipped a switch

[ci5ic]

I was driving down a really steep hill one time by my house a few years ago, and this jackass was on my tail and wouldn't back off... I was already speeding even, and he was still on my ass. So, I flashed my brake lights at him a couple times to warn him, and he kept on me, so I brake-checked him, and he locked up his brakes and spun out sideways in the middle of the hill. Was pretty funny, and by the time he was able to get his car headed the right direction, I was long gone.

Another time, I was on the freeway, 3 lanes each direction, and there was hardly anyone else on the highway at the time (it was pretty late at night), and this guy is right on my ass (in the middle lane no less) when he could have easily passed me on the left or the right... So, I flashed my brake lights at him, and he didn't back off, so I opened my sunroof and tossed my cigarette out and watched in the rear-view mirror as it hit his windshield and sent embers everywhere. Guy was pissed and tried to catch up with me, so I just took off. Funny though.

Again, on the same freeway, I was driving my jeep cherokee. It was winter time, and there was a bunch of snow and ice built up on the roof of the jeep. So, some other punk was on my ass, we were doing about 65, and as usual, didn't respond to the flashing brakelights, so I pounded my fist on the ceiling, which broke loose a ton of the snow and ice, which went flying all over his windshield... He backed off quite a bit after that, and the cool thing was that he/she probably never realized that it was entirely intentional on my part LOL.

Also, in my Jeep, sometimes the hose that goes to the rear wiper sprayer will come loose, and it points straight back, so if I hit the mister for the rear window, it sends a steady stream of fluid about 15 feet behind the Jeep. So, some guy was being an ass and following right on my tail, and I got stopped at a stoplight with him right behind me, and I could see in the rear-view mirror that he was creeping up really really close to my rear bumper, so I hit the switch and douched his car with windshield fluid. Cool thing was that he was in a Chrysler Sebring convertible (I think it was a Sebring), and so I actually got the guy all wet. Always thought it would be cool to replace the fluid in my reservoir with oil or something LOL.

Alot of times, if I'm driving around the city streets and someone is on my ass, I drive straight for the biggest pothole I can find (I know precisely where they all are pretty much), and then at the last second, veer out of the way, and watch in the mirror as they nail the pothole.

I think it'd be cool to rig up some kind of relatively light-weight metal bar that I could hook to a cable so that when I pulled a lever or something the bar would make contact with the pavement and throw out sparks... I think people would back off if they saw sparks coming from under your car...

[crxlvr]

shit these are the cases when the flame kit works well, just burn up his front bumper

and say your car is running all wierd if someone contacts you.

[RedRacerCivic]

put a tennis ball between the rear window and the wiper, when someone is tailgating you, turn on the rear wiper switch and watch the tennis ball bounce on all over his car.