BS or no??

[Axel Grungy]

my bro swears by his stupid "deer whistles" hes puts on his car. personally i think hes a moron and these things are a scam. anyone shed some light on the subject??

[rousie13]

I knew someone who hit a deer while they had these on the car.....the deer ripped one of them off of the car.

[Axel Grungy]

maybe its calling the deer?? LMFAO

[metalsyth]

The logic behind it seems right with something that creates a high pitch sound to run off the deer but in my opinion it is complete and total BS

[Jesda]

Cadillac night vision -- there is no substitute... unless you drive a bulldozer.

[Bruno240]

they apperntly scare the deer away.

but the other side of the story is what if the deer is just mindin its own buisness and now your car driving down the road and the wistle gets the deer scared and now its running and could run back into the street.

so i think its a waste of money bc they could scare the deer away or scare it towards your car

[[Zero-S]]

I hear that vennison is good anyways.

[rousie13]

]I hear that vennison is good anyways.

Oh it is.

[Altiman94]

I shoot them wiht my bow, not hit them with my car.

[rousie13]

I'll run em over with my truck if I have to....but I'd rather shoot them with my gun.

[Chingon]

I think it goes against the doppler effect...well maybe.

[nsrZ32]

definately BS

[SDRonEbay]

I always thought those things were full of it. They used to have the ones for your home to scare away pests. Yeah right. I think the ones on cars definitely don't work because (stop me if I'm wrong) high pitched sounds don't travel as fast from source to target than low tones. Furthermore, to produce a pitch that high AND deliver it out to a suitable distance in front of your moving vehicle to actually be effective in scaring away a deer, it's my belief you would have to amplify the sound to a point where it's no longer high-pitched. If it's no longer high pictched...isn't it then ineffective?

[Jesda]

I'll run em over with my truck if I have to....but I'd rather shoot them with my gun.

Ahhh, a little venison in your taco.

[navysnail]

they really dont do anything, the high pich is somthing they may find annoying but certainly not somthing that is going to make then magically go away. if you think about it, a deer is always minding its own buisiness when its in the road

[HashiriyaS14]

I don't think they work, I know a couple of people who've had run-ins with deer despite the whistles on their car.

What we really need are some photon torpedoes or something that we can just blow bambi up with, just vaporize 'em.

[UncleBen]

They look stupid too.

[yelnatsch517]

I always thought those things were full of it. They used to have the ones for your home to scare away pests. Yeah right. I think the ones on cars definitely don't work because (stop me if I'm wrong) high pitched sounds don't travel as fast from source to target than low tones. Furthermore, to produce a pitch that high AND deliver it out to a suitable distance in front of your moving vehicle to actually be effective in scaring away a deer, it's my belief you would have to amplify the sound to a point where it's no longer high-pitched. If it's no longer high pictched...isn't it then ineffective?

Hmm, I thought frequency does not affect amplitude of a wave. Eh, whatever... I never pay attention in physics anyway . At least I don't have to worry about deer.

[navysnail]

frequency doesnt affect amplitude your right, but he's also right, think of it this way: when you have your trebble and bass turned up, which one do you hear when your outside of the car, high frequency noises dont travel through things as well

[Bronze MFP]

can i get a deer whistle tip for my exhaust?

woooo woooooo!

[Mr1der]

dude....I think you need to put one in there....

and damn that guy...LET IT DIE!!!

[NSR_s30]

Who needs a deer whistle when you have a aftermarket exhaust. Most of them are loud enough to scare any animals away.

[psychic_mechanic]

Total BS.

One of the coolest cars I ever rebuilt as a body man was a show winning '69 Camaro. He had a custom interior, audio, kick-*** engine and eye burning yellow paint. Some of his trophies were in the back seat when he hit the deer that sent him to my shop. I laughed when I saw the anti-deer things on his front bumper (the only not-cool things on the entire car).

I theorize that the deer thingies were not working on his car because there is very little air flowing over the front bumper of a 69 Camaro. They might work better in the airstream (maybe on the roof) but would look even dorkier.

I'd probably run into the stupid deer on the highway trying to figure out what that annoying noise was anyway.

[Altiman94]

they do no good. Your best bet is to be cautious when driving through an area you k nwo where there is deer.

[JDMaholic]

Someone in my family has hit 2 deer on different occasions with these gismos on, although he claims that it works, go figure. I don't think the frequency has anything to do with it, changing amplitude doesn't effect frequency or the speed at which it travels, and high frequency travels through things fine, the reason that you can hear your bass louder outside your car is because that is what your ears pick up better, 35Hz-16kHz and as you get older the range narrows. The reason I think that deer don't react to them is becasue they are used to noises and at least where I am from they have to live right next to humans and have become used to them. My friend went to a local deer hunt at a state park, You would hold out food and a deer would come up to you and then bam bambi for dinner, haha