See that would make me nervous because some old lady would think I was turning and drive into the back of me. The fact that it is in the center would go right past them. It is low and not blinding though so it does have that going for it.

That is super fucking annoying. I'd be tempted to ram you just to make that shit stop.

My C30 the brake lights flashed when the ABS kicked on in a panic stop, it didn't cause a problem.

Thursday night I was behind an Acura with a low light like ours that was constantly on and it was so bright I had to look away and almost didn't see him slowing down to turn (with no turn signals :( ) but my wife did and she yelled for me to stop which cause a near panic stop and the car behind me had to swerve into oncoming traffic to miss me and nearly hit the car in front that caused the problem. I followed the guy into the parking lot and was about to confront him but my wife wouldn't let me because I was freaked and so angry it wouldn't have turned out well. Turned out it was a 20 something with the super cool flat brim hat turned sideways and his pants damn near down to his fkn knees. Yeah, so cool... Can't wait to spot the car around town sometime and take care of that light myself.

Dude, it's Houston, they're horrifically bad drivers there anyway. Stay the F AWAY from Houston people, m'kay?

My low mount valenti tail flashes 3 times then goes solid when I hit my brakes. I don't get tailgated as often and don't have as many near misses either. Mom's Miata also has blinding LED tails that I put on it because she'd been hit more than once by idiots not paying attention.

Oh hell no. That's just asking for a ticket if you ask me...

No worries, I could use the insurance money. :cheers:

3 years, and not even a remark from a LEO, and i have had plenty sit behind me at stop lights, etc. Funny thing, while I was hooking it up, a cop stopped to talk to me, he was looking for a loud stereo complaint, and figured it was me hooking up a stereo. I explained what I was doing, and he thought it was a good ideal, LOL.

I'm going to assume this means no astronauts have commented on seeing this from space. Because I find it much more amusing than assuming that LEO stands for something more normal than low earth orbit...

;)

Oh, that is awful.....

After being rear ended by a texting estrogen life form in a mini Fiat, I added a strip of red LED's below my brake lights that strobe for a second or two when braking, then turn solid. All the standard brake lights - no strobe.
My experiences are similar to yours. When I tap my brakes, I can see members of the herd giving me space behind me.
Flashing brake lights are illegal here for cars but LEGAL for motorcycles! As a result of studies showing less carnage, our tail light chasers on bikes use them.
Methinks because of that, and or that the strobe is additional and separate, no iron donkey walloper, or car cop has stopped me for that in 5 years (in an obvious track twin, which alone attracts the speed tax collectors!).
:cheers:

Unfortunately, I was too slow adapting the idea to the front of the bike. In 2014 one of those same lifeforms in a Tahoe ran a red light and brought my motorcycling career, and very nearly my life, to an end. I had been toying with how to put a continuously pulsing 8,000 lumen white light on the front end (a modern take on the old rotating beacons on the front of rail locomotives).

Sadly, day late - dollar short. I did get a nice consolation prize though - several pounds of titanium in various places I'll get to carry into the crematorium.

I think flashing panic stop brake lights are a good idea. My anecdote for this was that I was driving down the road and I always leave a good distance between me and the next car. In this case, I was driving 50kph and had about 8 car lengths between me and the mini-van in front of me so there is always plenty of time to stop. There was a brief distraction with some pedestrians on the side of the road that I turned my head to look at for a second at the very moment the mini-van panic stopped. I didn't notice right away but I did see in time to do my own panic stop to avoid hitting them but the minivan following me had to go up onto the curb to avoid rear ending me because I suspect they were distracted by the same thing that I was and noticed me too late.

I think if the lights flashed in a panic stop situation, they would have caught my attention sooner and I would not have had to panic stop at all or even if I did, my own flashing lights would have caught the attention of the driver behind me sooner and they wouldn't have had to swerve to avoid a collision too.

Just my feeling though.

Ugh, those pulsing front lights on bikes are awful. I have seen peoples' attention draw towards them and then their cars slowly drift that way too. I guess they get attention, but its just like a car flashing on and off their brights constantly in my opinion.


I could never do that on my own bike, knowing how much of an asshole I think those people are, lol.

yes, and Law Enforcement Officers too :)

Uh folks this feature has been on German cars for at least 10 years.

Welcome to last decade!