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Topic: Has anyone seen portable sonar backer upper thingy mabobbers?
Aaron (the good one)
posted 01-08-2006 08:32:24 PM
You know those things that are on the back of some cars and there is a speaker that beeps in the car faster and faster the closer you back up to an object.

Are there portable versions of those things? I get to start driving the delivery trucks tomorrow and anything that would help me back in is a good thing. That and the only test I failed was judging the distance in the mirrors about how far I was to the pylons (was 3 feet away when I was suppose to get 1 foot distance).

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Led
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posted 01-08-2006 08:55:01 PM
Ducttape an underling to the back of your truck.

Cease reversing when you hear the crunchy squishy meat sounds.

Profit!

Zaile Ghostmaker
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posted 01-08-2006 09:10:07 PM
quote:
Led spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Ducttape an underling to the back of your truck.

Cease reversing when you hear the crunchy squishy meat sounds.

Profit!


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Ruvyen
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posted 01-08-2006 09:28:54 PM
quote:
Led had this to say about Robocop:
Ducttape an underling to the back of your truck.

Cease reversing when you hear the crunchy squishy meat sounds.

Profit!


But that only works once per underling.

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posted 01-09-2006 12:00:55 AM
Just takes some practice, delid. For a while when I was first driving, I couldn't really tell where my wheels were sitting on the road (And subsequently move the car to avoid a pothole or something.) So I parked in a place with lines (hooray parking lot) and just got in and out and formed a good picture in my mind.

You can do the same with like a string or something tied 1foot away from something or whatever. You're smart, you can figure it out.

`Doc
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posted 01-09-2006 04:28:09 PM
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Just takes some practice, delid. For a while when I was first driving, I couldn't really tell where my wheels were sitting on the road (And subsequently move the car to avoid a pothole or something.) So I parked in a place with lines (hooray parking lot) and just got in and out and formed a good picture in my mind.
The difference being that in his case, he doesn't have the visibility to see properly behind the delivery truck.

Sorry, haven't seen a portable version. The version my parents got me (which I never installed) wires into the backup lights for power. You'd need one capable of {a} running off a portable battery pack, and {b} hooking or otherwise attaching onto a variety of vehicles.

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