Originally Posted by
hotbike
One blinking, one steady. If both are blinking, and they are both "off" at the same moment, you are invisible , even if it's just for 1/5th of a second, you are momentarily invisible.
To be fair - years back I saw some really terrible blinking patterns - anything with a long "off" in it's pattern is total crap. My dad has one from like 5 years ago, actually, and he puts it on that it it drives me crazy, the "off" is like half a second.
But - as much as I theoretically would like to agree with you, with most modern rear lights I haven't had a problem. They seem to be "on-on-off" now, and at a rate that's so fast that...well I'm just speaking from personal experience, but you can't really miss seeing them, they're on/off cycle is so short you can't look past it while it's off. I dunno...just what I've seen.