[zgotzilla]

Once the auto industry began standardizing brake lights to be separate from tail lights, rear end collisions went down. There are now LED license lights for cycles. I was wondering if anyone thought about making them red, standard, and tied to braking to make things a little less dangerous, since most of our cycle tail lights are small.

[Rab]

There are things you can do to improve your visibility in this respect.

1. Manually flash your brake-lights when slowing down.
2. Wave your left arm up and down when slowing quickly (even if they don’t know what it means, you’ll get their attention).
3. Buy a brake-light flasher bulb / unit (which does #1 automatically).
4. Buy supplementary brake lights. There’s a variety of standard bulb and LED ones available and even one which sticks-on to your helmet and gets activated by a “wireless” brake-light bulb. I had a flashing LED license-plate unit called the lite-blazer (google it) which worked great until water got into it.

If you feel strongly about standardization, why not write to the AMA (American Motorcyclist Association). They’re an advocacy organization for motorcyclists (founded in 1924) and you should consider joining for all our benefit (I’m a member).

http://www.amadirectlink.com

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