Cars
Custom cars sometimes have indirect lighting underneath, glowing a color like green or purple which could not be confused with that of an emergency or other vehicle's normal lighting. These can be provided by strips of tubes of cold-cathode fluorescent lighting, or LEDs, both of which are also used in some personal computers (especially those used in computer gaming, overclocking, or others built by hardcore computer geeks).
Hubcaps are made which have three strips of multicolor LEDs along the radius, and rotating with the speed of the car can create full-color motion graphics due to persistence of vision of the human eye.
Automobiles can also be decorated with Christmas lights at Christmastime, and powered through an inverter. This can be as simple as a wreath on the front grille, as would be put on the front door of a home. Very ornately-lit and decorated cars can be considered a form of art car, or Christmas light sculpture.
Decorative lighting can also be used on the inside of a vehicle. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have become very popular for this purpose because of their low power draw. 12 Volt varieties are especially useful for this application.
Party buses and limos also have decorative lighting too.
Read more about this topic: Decorative Vehicle Lighting
Famous quotes containing the word cars:
“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.”
—Neal Cassady (1926–1968)