My mission today will be to sit at railroad crossings and wait for a train to come by blowing the horn. I will have my lawyer on speed dial with my lawsuit paperwork ready. To think I wasted my life working when all I had to do was sue someone over a noise.....

 

I love how people try to justify train horns as practical by any means. I work in law enforcement and I'll ticket anyone I hear using one.

 

train. horns.
or, horns made for trains, for a reason.

a train will see you and will need to warn you from 1/2 mile away, or you are dead. A a-hole cutting you off in traffic likely does deserve to die, but that doesn't mean every person within a 100 ft radius must be made deaf at the same time.
I'm honestly torn between the cool factor of a loud-*** anything (horn, exhaust, whatever) and the sheer stupidity and danger of it...

 

From the content of your posts you sound to be very young.
Does your mother know that you're playing on the internet?

 

I drive 35,000 - 40,000 miles a year. People get here to Florida and leave their brains wherever they came from. I see roll over's on 25 mph roads, at least 4 rear endings a week, and even saw a 6 car pile up on a 25 mph road. People ignore turning lanes and come to a complete stop in the left lane of travel. Add that to the people who change lanes without signaling or looking, and horribly pull out in front of you while yapping on their phone, it's ridiculous.

If getting their attention by blasting an air horn makes them realize they are driving unsafe and putting others at risk, I think that's a good thing. Florida law doesn't have a decibel restriction on horns. There is laws against improper use of signaling devices, and one vague one that says horns can't be unreasonably loud. Semi trucks legally use air horns that are loud so if an air horn on a passenger vehicle emits the same decibels as a semi truck, how could that possibly be illegal?

I would understand ticketing a kid blasting a horn to scare people walking down the road, but signaling to an idiot who almost caused you to wreck with their idiocy is totally justified and legal.

Obviously the horn off of a cruise ship or some of the ridiculously loud train horns could be proven to be "unreasonably loud", but until semi truck horns start sounding like the roadrunner's "beep beep", good luck proving to a judge that ALL air horns are "unreasonably loud".

 

No, she's dead. What I posted was in response to the post above it that warned me that someone could claim hearing loss/damage and sue me.
I sarcastically pointed out how ridiculous I felt that comment/mindset is.

 

If you honestly believe it is necessary then go ahead. I personally can't fathom someone spending the money solely for the purpose of how you explained without "cool factor" being part of it.

 

tenacious, you're KIDding yourself.
Here are the facts on train horns in Florida:

"ARE TRAIN HORNS ILLEGAL IN FLORIDA?
You've modified your car, picked out the perfect train horn for it, and are ready to take it out for a drive. If you just want to have your train horn for appearances you may not run into any trouble on the road, but it could be a different story if you put the horn to use. While any train horn is an attention-grabbing accessory to put on your car or truck, before you outfit your vehicle and blow it for the first time, you need to find out the answer to this question: are train horns legal in Florida?

The answer is two-fold and goes back to the aforementioned issue of whether or not you actually blow your train horn. If you just keep it for looks, but never honk it, you technically won't be violating any laws in Florida. But if you happen to let loose with your train horn while you're driving, you will be breaking Florida statute 316.271(2), which states that "No horn or other warning device shall emit an unreasonable loud or harsh sound or whistle." In short, if you plan to sound your train horn at all, then the answer to the question "Are train horns illegal in Florida?" is "Yes".

Whether you face a penalty for sounding your horn depends solely on whether there's a law enforcement officer around willing and waiting to give you a citation. But before you take that risk, you should understand why blowing a train horn from a vehicle is illegal in the first place. The purpose of a train horn is to warn motorists of an oncoming train, which is why it's so loud -- 130 to 150 decibels, to be exact. This is why vehicles which sound train horns are considered to be "unreasonably loud": your car isn't a train and you don't need a horn that loud to warn anyone around you. A normal car or truck horn tops out at 110 decibels, which is quite a diffference.

Should you still outfit your vehicle with a train horn just for looks or fun? Absolutely! Just be aware of the potential consequences of actually putting it to use."

Read more: http://trainhorns.us/articles/are-tr...#ixzz423fGLW00

 

Come drive around Florida for a week, you'll understand, lol. When I first moved here, I considered driving with my helmet & HANS device on.

 

We may have a slightly different definition of "train horns" then. Nathan Airchime manufactures many of the horns used on trains. Just the horns themselves will set you back over $1000, add to it the compressors, lines, relays, switches, and tanks required to feed those beasts, and your probably looking at $1500-$2,000 + labor to get real train horns. That is also assuming you can even get them to fit under your truck.

Most people refer to the air horn kits available on e-bay or amazon as train horns. Some of the more expensive kits do get pretty loud, but rarely, very rarely can you get one as loud as a train without spending serious money. Most kits sold are no louder than a semi trucks air horn, they just emit the same note as a train instead of a truck.

I remember mentioning the "unreasonably loud" part a couple post's up, please provide me the statute that shows a decibel restriction, or anything saying the use of any air horn is illegal. I'll just sit here and KID myself until you find them.