The police I have talked to, said, that if it is not a red or blue light flashing in the windshield area,you are not trying to look like the police or emergency vehicle, I was told , that in TN if you can not see from the front of vehicle, no problem.
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(For those of you I have not met yet, my name is Lance. Kurt and I are brothers that co-invented the GloRyder together. Either of us may jump in from time to time. I'll sign at end to differentiate.)
By the way, ExtraCool, the pic of your bike looks great! I also love the forum. Looks like you guys are trudging the same path of thought Kurt and I had when developing this in the years before it went public.
I cannot help notice the legal/illegal question that comes up from time to time. So maybe this will help, as Kurt and I had this as a major point in design when we were developing years ago.
We did alot of research on regs in discussions w/ members of: California and Florida Highway Patrol, D.O.T. and numerous officers of different counties and states before finalizing design. Their input caused us to avoid some critical areas and modify for others. It may be also of note one major international chain's legal dept. subjected our product to intense scrutiny on legality:spyder:.....and then they placed the order that primarily launched us in a big way. (Why I cannot mention them in the same breath as their legal dept. is beyond me but, they have over 2000 stores in the U.S. and out. I think I am safe w/ that.)
In short, I will personally vouch that I have had two whole reports relayed to me of tickets since their first debut on cars nearly 3 years ago. Two different reports relayed to me were that an officer pulled them over...because he liked them and wanted an up close.
Does this mean I have heard every report? Obviously not, but I am usually one of the people they come to first.
Does this mean that some individual county or state might not have some reg.? Sure. On the other hand, consider any street rod on the highway, depending on a a county or state they run through: the emissions, the horsepower, the modded tailights, ground clearance, custom bumpers, the mufflers etc... any one of these might not meet a reg. in one place or another. However, America is the land of the street rod over any other place on earth, last time I checked. In the end, good judgement and balance usually are respected by all. If I ever found a county that asked me to turm 'em off, I would. However, that simply has never happened to me or Kurt....ever. I think Kurt has nearly 6-7 years of road-testing under his belt w/ no issues other than "when can i get them?"
I will also mention this for any who think this is simply a new bling idea. A cool piece of American car lore in the infancy of development: There was a time in the very early development of the car that lighting of wheels was seriously considered a good idea for safety (broadsiding, intersections, etc..). They just couldn't do it properly back then........until now. I think even LaMonster made a comment about amber running lights earlier. He was alot closer to the mark than some may have thought.
You also might get a kick out of this one from last week:
An officer earlier this week asked if we could get the Chief of Police a demonstration of the GloRyder. He saw them on patrol and thought they were great. He was surprised when I told him that it was his chief that was among those that gave me and Kurt pointers back when we were developing. The Chief likes them, but we would still have to develop for integration w/ their light systems. Another one for the to-do list.
Hope this helps.
Regards to all the Spyders!
Lance
