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A school bus is one of the bigger types of vehicles on the road. Certainy bigger than your average family hauler. With lights that compare in size with dinner plates. And yet someone could drive around the flattest part of TX and rear-end it, while it was flashing said dinner plate lights, without another vehicle or building within eyesight. Boggles the mind.
It's something I always think about when people assume flashing lights is good. I recall reading a study where it subconsciously draws us in. Makes sense, flashing makes you look, you tend to steer towards where you look. Hence "look where you want to go, not at what you are trying to avoid."
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Just walk in places and say "ere! Whats all this then!"
On a related note it dosent matter how much Hi-Vis you wear the average American driver will still try to kill you or drive his car right into the back of the giant yellow excavator with the strobe lights.
A school bus is one of the bigger types of vehicles on the road. Certainy bigger than your average family hauler. With lights that compare in size with dinner plates. And yet someone could drive around the flattest part of TX and rear-end it, while it was flashing said dinner plate lights, without another vehicle or building within eyesight. Boggles the mind.
It's something I always think about when people assume flashing lights is good. I recall reading a study where it subconsciously draws us in. Makes sense, flashing makes you look, you tend to steer towards where you look. Hence "look where you want to go, not at what you are trying to avoid."
What is especially bad is LEO vehicles with blue strobes, usually set on high brightness, and hi speed flash, at night.
The blue light frequency is designed to intentionally confuse your eyes, "to force drivers to slow down more".
Instead, they are blinding and dis-orienting, thus making it much easier to drive right into the cop car / wreck, whatever.
Years ago, California did a traffic study that proved that a cruiser parked on the side of the road, without lights, caused less wrecks, collisions, traffic disruption, ie 'rubberneckers' than fully lit up cruisers.
The really bad news is that LEO's working the incident think they are 'safe' because of all the flashing lights, which makes all people on foot basically invisible to a blinded driver.
To all LEO's - I can see your fucking blue strobes from a mile away. I know you are there. Now dim them, slow them so I can see to avoid you.
ETA - to the OP - sorry for the hi-jack / rant.