Originally Posted by CR94
Originally Posted by billt460
We have too many beepers and buzzers already. The guy that invented the backup alarm should be taken out and shot. The guy that put them on garbage trucks should be shot twice.
How about the guy at Toyota who decided I need a continuous loud beeper INSIDE the car while backing up?
He should be shot 3 times. If you need a beeper to know when you're backing up, you've got no business behind the wheel.
The problem with all of these things, (back up alarms), is no one pays attention to them anymore, because they're everywhere. Garbage trucks, cement trucks, fork lifts, delivery trucks of every size and type. I've even heard them on some police cruisers. It's insane.
They rank right under car "alarms" that blow the horn intermittently . Have you ever been to a crowded shopping center parking lot when one wasn't going off? The concept sounds good, but fails in practice over time, because the application becomes more useless due to mass dilution. They have become nothing more than an annoyance. We have been alarmed and pass worded to death.
Besides, much like "gun locks", the majority of this crap is now being installed for legal liability reasons only. Not, "in the interest of public safety".