Subdeacon Joe Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Should make them more visible. https://www.wandtv.com/news/new-york-police-test-vertical-light-bars-on-cruisers/article_b6d198f8-1dc3-11ea-9b86-cfce975f07a4.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Holy Cow! It’s like a Star Wars light show! They could scare the living hell out of people with those things. I had a California Highway Patrol turn his lights on behind me a while back. He needed to get around me to go to a call. He about gave me a coronary at 4:30 in the morning. Those New York lights would have done me in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 Holy Cow! It’s like a Star Wars light show! They could scare the living hell out of people with those things. I had a California Highway Patrol turn his lights on behind me a while back. He needed to get around me to go to a call. He about gave me a coronary at 4:30 in the morning. Those New York lights would have done me in. If I have it right, they only deploy them to vertical when they are stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 That's the only thing that makes sense. If they stood them up while they were in high speed pursuit, the wind generated by their passage would snatch them off the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major E A Sterner #12916 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 The Town of Poughkeepsie NY has been using these light bars for at least 15 years, seems the N.Y.S. Troopers are a little behind the times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Oh goody. A bigger, brighter, flashier target for drunks, junkies, and idiots to aim at.....not to mention the flashier part is also somewhat hypnotic. I wonder whose brother-in-law thought up and is selling these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I wonder how they will hold up, no pun intended, under extreme weather conditions? Especially below zero. Bar goes up, maybe, but will it come down? Now what will you do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I wonder how they will hold up, no pun intended, under extreme weather conditions? Especially below zero. Bar goes up, maybe, but will it come down? Now what will you do One would assume they did sufficient r&d before marketing them. But you know what they say about assuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Oh goody. A bigger, brighter, flashier target for drunks, junkies, and idiots to aim at.....not to mention the flashier part is also somewhat hypnotic. I wonder whose brother-in-law thought up and is selling these things. Well, while it's true that dtunks tend to turn the wheel wherever their eyes wander you still have to do ypur best to warn approaching traffic. I always used to tell my officers to avoid making traffic stops on the interstate unless it was a life or death scenario. Let the Highway Patrol handle it. I had two friends seriously injured when drunks hit them on traffic stops. One lost a leg. The other was recuperating for almost a year. Simple routinr traffic stops are one of the most dangerous things you do as a cop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 One would assume they did sufficient r&d before marketing them. But you know what they say about assuming. I was about to say you and I have had the extreme weather conditions, but then I remembered Florida, yea right, extreme cold conditions. In Kansas City, Missouri with zero degree weather down to 30 below it was common for light bars to freeze up where they would not come on, not go off, not rotate, not flash. Very temperamental and moody at times just like a .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I was about to say you and I have had the extreme weather conditions, but then I remembered Florida, yea right, extreme cold conditions. In Kansas City, Missouri with zero degree weather down to 30 below it was common for light bars to freeze up where they would not come on, not go off, not rotate, not flash. Very temperamental and moody at times just like a .... All we had was hurricanes. I imagine the new LED stuff is less prone to malfunctioning. But I can see this system getting frozen up in winter. Unless maybe there's a de-icer on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 All we had was hurricanes. I imaginf the new LED stuff is les prone to malfunctioning. But I can see this system getting frozen up in winter. Unless maybe there's a de-icer on it. Exactly, 31 degrees misting then ice coming down, freezing rain and down to 22 while it's up. It should freeze up in some position, especially if it is up for a long time. But why officer has a can of deicer in the trunk. Even at that sometimes that didn't work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 "...remembered Florida, yea right, extreme cold conditions." In '82 it got down to 6. About half the town didn't make it to work that day. Neener neener neener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 You know at least one poor bastid cop is going to forget to put 'em down and pull into a garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 That thing will be a total PITA anytime there is freezing rain, snow or sleet. It might raise up but any accumulation will keep them from moving back into the stowed position.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Not a big fan of the new LED lights on emergency vehicles. Approaching two or more PD cars at an accident scene I am blinded, and cannot make out any officers out of their vehicles. There is such a thing as too much light. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Not a big fan of the new LED lights on emergency vehicles. Approaching two or more PD cars at an accident scene I am blinded, and cannot make out any officers out of their vehicles. There is such a thing as too much light. LL +100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 In the rain the lights nowadays bring you to a stop trying to figure out where the hell the road actually is or which side of the road the emergency vehicle is on. Went way too far with the lights. Get stuck behind a snow plow and you get nauseous from the strobeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perro Del Diablo Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 As a motorcycle rider unfortunately I can say there are still people who wont see them. I almost got ran over last week and I was driving my 2500 HD Truck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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