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05-06-2003, 07:53 AM
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| |  Music and driving
who doesn't listen to music while driving?
Problem is, when I do (always) the volume is.. er.. HIGH
er... VERY HIGH
So I often miss all the annoying, pleasant or useful sounds from outside 
It happened of course before: I don't hear an ambulance arrive for instance, or something like that..
so I just collect a few puzzled looks for my delayed reactions, but in the end, no terrible harm done.
Well yesterday I missed an ambulance arriving, shortly after a police car, and then while I was driving back home..
To reach my home you have to use those nice hill roads all turnings and chicanes, which often also become a bit too narrow.
It's a good habit to use the acustic signal when you can't see who's coming from the opposite direction, or the light signals, by night.
In short, I completely missed the signal of a pullman... I heard, at the very last moment, the fading out of the last signal, to be more precise. The pullman appeared immediately, and was even a bit too fast (like me  )
Luckily with ABS and new brakes I stopped in time - invading the (blessed) little entrance-road of a house, in truth.
Still, I felt guilty and quite stupid...
Everytime I decide I will limit the music's volume, and everytime it just raises again in no time  |
05-06-2003, 05:27 PM
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| | | The simple answer would be to take a hammer to your speakers, but, well, perhaps that's to simple, even for littiz. BS on the other hand...
Why don't you limit the range of motion on your volume control or something?
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05-06-2003, 10:02 PM
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| | | I have the same problem with the music too. I always have to have it loud enough that I can't myself when I sing along.
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05-07-2003, 12:25 AM
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| |  I like them loud...
...but not THAT loud. 
As for me, it's not singing along with the music...
...it's the dancing. 
Yeah, I get those weird looking stares. 
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05-07-2003, 10:13 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by ObsidianReturns
The simple answer would be to take a hammer to your speakers, but, well, perhaps that's to simple, even for littiz.
| No , my dear 130W speakers, SALVAGED from my previous car!!
But, "even for littiz", is that a compliment or, er... not a compliment? 
@Mah:
LOL do you have any screenshots? |
05-07-2003, 03:25 PM
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| | | Try listening to the some of the old N-sync or backstreetboys albums in you're car.
Then the colume will drop automaticly
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05-07-2003, 04:30 PM
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| | | Wise words from stilgar.
Allow yourself only music you really don't like, that way you won't play it loud.
It was a.... hmm, kind of neutral really.
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05-08-2003, 01:20 AM
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05-08-2003, 02:04 AM
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| | I sometimes car-pool to campus with a mate of mine. He just happens to have an unnaturally loud and very expensive stereo system. The back seats vibrate and its not uncommon for your ears to hurt for a while at first. Its like being treated to your own private concert, I once tried the Jurassic Park bit of leaving a glass of water out to pick up the vibrations as the car came to pick me up.
As for me, no music allowed. I find it distracting as a driver, maybe when I'm more comfortable on the road I'll switch it on 
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05-08-2003, 11:49 AM
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| | Music whilst driving: excellent, especially when something fast paced is on, like old Iron Maiden.
Music so loud it vibrates the back seats: Hope you enjoy the Sound of Music while your hearing lasts. Soon, it will be nothing but a vibration to you anyway. |
05-08-2003, 11:57 AM
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| | | Just purchase the texas bands cd known as the road kings. Anyone driving with that music will be fine.
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05-08-2003, 09:57 PM
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| | | Re: I like them loud...
LOL....yea,
explaining those footprints on the ceiling can be rather embarrassing
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05-08-2003, 09:58 PM
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05-09-2003, 04:32 PM
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| | I always listen to music when i'm driving... for me it's not "how loud it is" but the "how good the song is" i tend to hit more gas when hearing really good song, though i can control it so i don't go 60 miles/hour in residential zones |
05-14-2003, 08:04 AM
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| | I tend to like fast-paced classical movements or something with a soaring, enthusiastic melodic line, like much of the stuff from the Russian Nationalist movement (Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Glazunov, etc). Jazz is fantastic, but my wife finds it usually puts her to sleep in a car. ('Course, I've yet to expose her to Ornette Coleman. *That* would keep her awake.)
We also both like some world groups, such as the Hungarian-based Ghymes, while driving. They especially have one great number on their album Firedance, a kind of half-parody of R&B, with an instrumentalist in the band whose singing voice makes Tom Waits sound like Luciano Pavarotti.
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