11-25-2020, 10:10 AM | #11 |
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Re: Icon Backup Absurdly Loud Alarm
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11-25-2020, 09:54 PM | #12 | |
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11-26-2020, 10:59 PM | #13 | |
Gone Wild
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There are two key points here that don't generally apply on this forum:
This specific suit was more of an ambulance chaser type thing where a woman had severe brain damage, and insurance was going to have to pay bigtime regardless. The focus on the golf cart backup buzzer is the lawyers signaling to the insurance company they're going to play hardball and were willing to take it to a trial by jury and at a jury trial, they would hammer that into the jurors head that somebody "disconnected the buzzer". That can be compelling to your average Joe, but again, that's on insurance and would still make no impact to you as an owner other than potentially your insurance rates going up a little if you managed to cause severe brain damage. Insurance companies hate jury trials for various reasons...one being people hate insurance companies and if there is ever anything simple like "disconnected buzzer", they know they'll have an uphill fight. They also had doctors claiming it would be over $1 million for long-term care, so insurance settled at $500k. It's just typical personal injury attorneys going after insurance for payouts...doesn't really matter to any of us since we just pay for insurance. That said...you should always have auto insurance if you're on public roads or homeowners/renters if you are on private property with it. Also, important to note is lawyers will only go after something like this if there is insurance and a business usually has much higher insurance limits than an individual, so if they are covered for $1m the lawyers know they can get $500k easily where if your personal cart is covered for $300k, they know it would be difficult to get all $300k. |
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11-26-2020, 11:55 PM | #14 |
Gone Wild
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Re: Icon Backup Absurdly Loud Alarm
I agree ... an absurdly loud backup alarm is not desirable on a cart.
But a functional back up alarm is a good safety feature ... it gets the dogs or cats sleeping under the cart moving ... it alerts others to your movement ... and it confirms when you are in forward or reverse. Instead of disconnecting it, either muffle it to reduce the sound or pick out one that is not so annoying ! Here is some information on the intermittent back up alarm that I installed on my cart: https://buggiesgonewild.com/showpost...30&postcount=1 |
11-27-2020, 12:16 AM | #15 | |
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11-27-2020, 12:50 AM | #16 | |
Gone Wild
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My friend lives in a downtown metro area, and every morning at 6am a truck backs up to unload things and it wakes him up. It's obnoxious. It's the truck's routine, so it's consistent too. So pretty much if you're near a location where trucks need to backup frequently, it's CRAZY annoying. Some fun reading: https://noisefree.org/sources-of-noise/back-up-beepers/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-up_beeper https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...oval-1.5027996 |
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11-28-2020, 11:45 PM | #17 | |
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11-29-2020, 02:15 PM | #18 |
Gone Wild
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Re: Icon Backup Absurdly Loud Alarm
No problem, and I didn't mean to be argumentative or get too in the legal weeds or anything. I just wanted anyone who stumbled across this thread to know it's almost guaranteed to be legal to disconnect if they choose to do so, and provide supporting information for them in making that decision.
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12-01-2020, 08:42 PM | #19 | |
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