Lightning conductor or help with travel sickness?
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No, they were not meant for use as 'lightning conductors'. Their use was for discharging static electricity that builds up in cars as they move (the rubber tyres insulate the cars from the ground).
Supposedly, the continuous discharge was supposed to alleviate travel sickness, exactly as you believe.
And they were not rubber - but a conducting material
Actually, aircraft have what are known as 'static dischargers', which provide the same function of discharging electrostatic energy. This time not for travel sickness, but to prevent the build up of static that would interfere with the aircraft electronics - AND to minimise the chance of lightning strikes!!
Neither. You seldom see them on cars, but you often do on motor homes or large trucks. Stop and think, would rubber, a wonderful insulator, conduct electricity? Nope. Would dragging rubber behind your car have any effect on motion sickness? Again, nope.
So what are they for? Just another type of "mud flap', designed to keep the vehicle from throwing mud, water or stones off the road and into the windshields of the following traffic.
Oh! wouldn't even try to solve an argument between you and your husband!
I think that what your are talking about is a device that discharged electricity from the car to earth. I don't think that they are made of rubber (got tyres that would sort that one out) and I don't think that you need a lightning conductor in a car. I do believe that the device would discharge static electricity from the car to earth, but I am not sure that this would assist in the prevention of travel sickness.
If your question is about travel sickness, either for you or other passengers in the car, then the best advise that I can offer is that you watch the road. It is rare for a driver to become travel sick. It is all about orientation.
Don't try to read books or do anything that looks at the inside of the vehicle. Everything should be done looking at the outside of the car.
The eyes see but the ears balance. If the eyes see the inside of the car then it is in motion. The ears can't work this out. Allow eyes and ears to work together and there will be no travel sickness.
As a small and illustrative point about drivers not getting travel sick, I do - but only in thick fog! I can't see the surrounding scenery and so my ears can't make sense of what my eyes are seeing. Does this make sense?
the strips were sold here for anti-static qualities, so you don't get a jolt when you get out. Metal cars don't need lightning conductors as in a storm are actually safer than in your house.
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