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Horse Lasers - 2015 Ford Mustang GT Long-Term Road Test
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Horse Lasers - 2015 Ford Mustang GT Long-Term Road Test
Edmunds conducts a long-term test of a 2015 Ford Mustang and has some colorful commentary regarding the horse lights that project from the mirrors.
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How hard are they to disable?
1) People who hate horse lasers
2) People who watch this video and lose their MIND at 3:04
http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/automakers-turn-puddle-lights-into-surprise-and-delight-feature.html
And I'm just guessing but I think it is more likely an LED projector silhouette setup rather than a laser drawing the image.
Thus it was probably more of a "Hey, we are already putting courtesy lights in here, what if we run it through a lens and give it the shape of our logo?" than extensive R&D.
But then again we get gripes on here that on some cars when you start them up the gauges don't 'sweep' across the dash because it looks cool.
And finally, am I the only one that every time I read 'laser' it was in a Dr Evil voice?
They missed an opportunity here. It should alternate several times a second between the horse shown above and one with legs the spread out in a gallop to create a kind of stop-motion animation of the horse running. Even Mr. Kavanagh couldn't say no to that.
Now if only Ford would integrate naked lady silhouette puddle lights on diesel F-series for the boneheads who jack them up and roll coal, they'd have their target demographic catered to perfectly.