I think of my own traffic and the #1 job is not to be "tracked," it's simply to succeed in being noticed. Just a quick sample, got work to do here...


Which would you rather have here, one more steady red light to add to the collection of 20 steady red lights? or two strobing ones?



Or this ride (skip to about 6m 10sec in for the segment in question, or watch the whole thing to see me get pwned by Mother Nature):

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Yeah, now you see why I'm packin' the DiNotte 300R around

If flashing mode sends the message that there's something ahead that's not a car, that trumps "trackability" any day in my opinion. If I want to provide range cues, multiple lights with physical separation provide divergence cues, e.g. a helmet light and a bike-mounted light.

I've ridden the highways for decades while observing overtaking traffic in my helmet mirror. My observation is that the more blinkage is going on, the more likely the traffic will change to the other lane on a divided highway at significant range, and that there is not the slightest trend for people to drift towards me. And my favorite highway is a pretty high likelihood of having drinkers, being the highway south out of the city AND leading to a major state university.