What happened to the lost art of flashing your brights to warn of a speed trap?

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Mar 25, 2019
3:39:42pm

Skeptical Optimist All-American

What happened to the lost art of flashing your brights to warn of a speed trap?

Seems like nobody does it anymore.

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Skeptical Optimist

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What happened to the lost art of flashing your brights to warn of a speed trap?

Skeptical Optimist

3/25/19 3:39pm

still see it. Sorry you got hit

Mayor of Cougartown

3/25/19 3:40pm

Didn't get hit, but drove through one today and gave the oncoming traffic the

Skeptical Optimist

3/25/19 3:41pm

I see it done on occasion...

CoachSpeak

3/25/19 3:40pm

I do. I’m cool like that though.

3/25/19 3:41pm

Proliferation of this rumor:

Byron McNertney

3/25/19 3:42pm

I do it often, but I think people in Utah don't get it or know what I'm doing.

ReggaeCoug

3/25/19 3:42pm

replaced by Waze

byuwahoo

3/25/19 3:43pm

I got in real trouble once for flashing.

StarMan

3/25/19 3:48pm

How?

Skeptical Optimist

3/25/19 3:53pm

Oh, I missed the last 8 words of your subject line, mine was a different kind.

StarMan

3/25/19 4:06pm

RE: Oh, I missed the last 8 words of your subject line, mine was a different

Skeptical Optimist

3/25/19 4:12pm

RE: Oh, I missed the last 8 words of your subject line, mine was a different

3/25/19 5:06pm

RE: I got in real trouble once for flashing.

m0resn0w

3/25/19 5:52pm

That was an art form? and I didn't even know it.

lightmann

3/25/19 3:48pm

I was driving the other day and Google maps notified me of a speed trap ahead.

Dread Pirate Westley

3/25/19 4:14pm

I did it once and the driver flipped me off

Alpi Gusto

3/25/19 4:19pm

Their loss.

byuluvr

3/25/19 4:20pm

I flash my brights every time I come up on one.

byuluvr

3/25/19 4:19pm

It's illegal to do so in California now

3/25/19 4:26pm

seems like that would be a violation of free speech rights

byuwahoo

3/25/19 4:31pm

How? Seems like a first amendment issue.

Skeptical Optimist

3/25/19 4:31pm

Sorry, let me explain. They billed it as a safety code but in reality it was

3/25/19 4:40pm

Link to the vehicle code?

3/25/19 4:38pm

I do it. I was wondering if people still knew what it met? I get some ticked

8theU

3/25/19 4:56pm

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