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landy


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I'm not sure to many people would want their tail lights to flash when they are overloaded biggrin https://www.drive.com.au/news/genius-tech-alerts-drivers-when-their-ute-is-overloaded/?utm_source=Nine-Rail&utm_medium=Referral

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I certainly wouldn't.



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landy wrote:

I'm not sure to many people would want their tail lights to flash when they are overloaded biggrin https://www.drive.com.au/news/genius-tech-alerts-drivers-when-their-ute-is-overloaded/?utm_source=Nine-Rail&utm_medium=Referral

 This would be dangerous because there would be so many flashing lights that other drivers could be distracted from the job at hand! Not sure of exact figures because my records are at home,but at a free van-weighing exercise conducted by Police,more than 70% of cars and vans weighed were found to be overloaded on at least one axle,or over their GVM or GCM. Ignorance,or "She'll be right!,or "DILLIGAF"  I do not know,but they're out there sharing our roads.Cheers

 

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It doesn't take much for your payload to vanish. A family simply filling up the car with kid & stuff to go on a weekend break, I would suggest more often than not will be over their payload.

Rather than flashing lights, it would be better the tyres turn square when you start the engine!



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I don't think it's flashing rear lights as such but rather the rear lights contain an LED bargraph which indicates how much load is in the truck as, normally, the driver would be outside the cabin when loading was carried out and the external LED bargraph is a good way to let him know how things are going without having to nip into the cabin regularly, it's a good way to display it but "Genius" as the article insisted, it is not! :) A load cell or two, some op-amps, a small microcontroller and a few LEDs.

And, of course, it'll be a few $k to repair when it goes wrong and thinks the truck is carrying 20T and won't let you drive it.



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