Comments on: An even scarier horn for your scooter? http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/ America's motor scooter, moped and micro car news source. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:09:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ScooterScoop http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-5610 ScooterScoop Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:55:00 +0000 http://66.147.242.95/~thescoot/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/#comment-5610 NVanWendy! I think you're on to something. Can you keep us posted on your project? I'd love to see the outcome! NVanWendy! I think you're on to something. Can you keep us posted on your project? I'd love to see the outcome!

]]> By: NVanWendy http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-5609 NVanWendy Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:34:19 +0000 http://66.147.242.95/~thescoot/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/#comment-5609 Until holograms are practical, Steve, you might want to try what I'm planning: go to your local electronic supply and buy/build an LED flasher circuit. Get 2-4 of the biggest bright-white LEDs they have and mount them facing forward in your plasticwork. Mount a momentary pushbutton by your left thumb, and at every busy intersection or guy sliding blithely out of a sidestreet, give 'em something they can't miss! Until holograms are practical, Steve, you might want to try what I'm planning: go to your local electronic supply and buy/build an LED flasher circuit. Get 2-4 of the biggest bright-white LEDs they have and mount them facing forward in your plasticwork. Mount a momentary pushbutton by your left thumb, and at every busy intersection or guy sliding blithely out of a sidestreet, give 'em something they can't miss!

]]> By: Steve http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-1971 Steve Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:40:00 +0000 http://66.147.242.95/~thescoot/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/#comment-1971 Hrm... interesting stuff. <br/><br/>I'm been trying to think of ways myself to make my scooter or person more visible in the day time. <br/><br/>There's got to be a way to make your whole scooter flash brightly without looking like you've strung Christmas lights all over it.<br/><br/>Maybe in the future we'll have a holographic projector mounted to our scoots. When it's turned on it looks like a big dirty Mack Truck is coming down the road. Hrm… interesting stuff.

I’m been trying to think of ways myself to make my scooter or person more visible in the day time.

There’s got to be a way to make your whole scooter flash brightly without looking like you’ve strung Christmas lights all over it.

Maybe in the future we’ll have a holographic projector mounted to our scoots. When it’s turned on it looks like a big dirty Mack Truck is coming down the road.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-1940 Anonymous Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:30:00 +0000 http://66.147.242.95/~thescoot/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/#comment-1940 Steve, <br/><br/>I have one of those on my 2002 Honda Silver Wing and it is honking LOUD! It has already paid for itself several times. <br/><br/>Ed in Baton Rouge Steve,

I have one of those on my 2002 Honda Silver Wing and it is honking LOUD! It has already paid for itself several times.

Ed in Baton Rouge

]]> By: GenWaylaid http://www.thescooterscoop.com/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/comment-page-1/#comment-1939 GenWaylaid Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:47:00 +0000 http://66.147.242.95/~thescoot/2007/02/13/an-even-scarier-horn-for-your-scooter/#comment-1939 Viola, the Hummer of the scooter horn world: more than you need, more than anyone could ever possibly need, more than enough to annoy everyone else.<br/><br/>Here are a few interesting facts about the decibel scale:<br/>http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm<br/><br/>According to them, this little air horn rates 30 dB higher than a normal car horn, hence 1000 times more intense and audible from over 30 times further away.<br/><br/>Is that necessary? Logic says you wouldn't have to be any louder than an average car to be heard, and louder sounds are not easier to locate. Punch the button on this little sucker and motorists for three blocks will be asking, "What was that noise?" but they won't necessarily see or avoid you.<br/><br/>Whatever you do, don't honk this baby with your head near it. It's approximately as loud as a gunshot and "any exposure to 140-dB sound causes immediate [hearing] damage (and causes actual pain)."<br/><br/>Driving is still a mainly visual activity, so if you really want safety some retroreflective day-glo is almost certainly a better investment. Viola, the Hummer of the scooter horn world: more than you need, more than anyone could ever possibly need, more than enough to annoy everyone else.

Here are a few interesting facts about the decibel scale:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm

According to them, this little air horn rates 30 dB higher than a normal car horn, hence 1000 times more intense and audible from over 30 times further away.

Is that necessary? Logic says you wouldn’t have to be any louder than an average car to be heard, and louder sounds are not easier to locate. Punch the button on this little sucker and motorists for three blocks will be asking, “What was that noise?” but they won’t necessarily see or avoid you.

Whatever you do, don’t honk this baby with your head near it. It’s approximately as loud as a gunshot and “any exposure to 140-dB sound causes immediate [hearing] damage (and causes actual pain).”

Driving is still a mainly visual activity, so if you really want safety some retroreflective day-glo is almost certainly a better investment.

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