black outs

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by ClockworkC5

normally i dont like black outs, but ive got a white c5 that would like very slick with black outs. however not sure of the legality of them. from my basic understanding you can have them, but if someone rear ends you, its automatically your fault. which in fl no fault shouldnt really matter. howerver what does insurance say about that?

I thought it was this thread but maybe not. Anyway, a year or 2 back, a fellow club member (from another group) kept having problems with a particular officer from Ocala P.D. messing with him over his rear black outs.

I reviewed the statute, then we went out and did video and still documentary on the lights in DAYLIGHT hours (thats all the statute references) from measured distances greater than that required of the statute.

Also compiled all the weather data from the NWS, compiled a letter to the Chief and sent it.

Since that date, he hasn't had a problem with the OPD or his black outs.

There is I believe another statute that might bite you in the backside that covers this particular modification.

Like C5Statetrooper said, the civil suit may cost you big time. Juries are finicky sob's to start with.

I'd save the mod for shows only and remove them while operating on public streets.

Besides, we have enough crappy drivers in this state!! Why give them anything else to work with?

[Rich Z]

Actually in a civil suit your defense about being rear ended would be to simply say "Your honor, I believe the plaintiff might have very well been too distracted by his/her cell phone to even notice whether the rear brake lights were on or not...." Cell phones and driving don't mix....

[Shadow]

Very true..."if" they were on a cell phone.

Then all you have to do is prove it

[navy2kcoupe]

Originally Posted by Shadow

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Besides, we have enough crappy drivers in this state!! Why give them anything else to work with?

You got THAT right ! But my considered opinion would be that the majority of the bad drivers in Florida are snow birds from here in Massachusetts, or are retirees from here! Got a BUNCH of "wicked bad drivahs " up here too!

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Very true..."if" they were on a cell phone.

Then all you have to do is prove it

These days it would be a 90 percent probability of being true.........

Heck, have you walked through a mall lately? EVERYONE has a cell phone stuck to their head.

I'm wondering when the first implants tied directly to the nervous system will take place............. Then we'll never know if someone is a looney talking to himself of just got a call come in on the neural net.