Originally Posted by
cehowardGS
IMO, the MagicShine 880 will be a super winner.. Well, the nutcases that don't notice are in the minority. The main thing is that we are being seen and respect, and most of this comes from having ample lights..
The people who don't notice are in the minority, of course. But that means little. If 1 in 1000 drivers I encounter on the road ignore the lights, that still means multiple cars per year that ignore the lights.
I really don't think that past the point where I'm at, more light will really do any good. I think that the people who would notice 2000 lumens will notice 500, and the people who don't notice 500 won't notice 2000. There will be a tiny percent more, but not much.
It's worth having bright lights to sweep up the vast majority of drivers so you don't have to brake and swerve to avoid every nutjob, but I don't think it's really worth spending 4x as much on lights to bring the number of people who "don't see" your lights from 50 per year to 49.8 per year.