Originally Posted by
Dunbar
Here's a video of the light I have. It flashes really fast. At night, to a driver looking in their rear view mirror, it can very easily appear to be an emergency vehicle (police don't always use their sirens BTW.)
I don't know what police use there, but they use a multitude of lights in their bars, about five feet across. They're generally strobes and are colored red, white and blue. Looks like this (during the day, much more impressive at night when they're actually pursuing somebody or pulling them over) --
Looking them up online, typical modern police light bars use about 15-30 amps of power, so that works out to around 200 to 400 watts.
Anybody who confuses a 2w Planet Bike Blaze, whatever the flash pattern, with that is a frickin' idiot. Even if it's in their rear view mirror, it's really foggy and they're drunk. Maybe they were on LSD?
Ambulances use different lights, of course, but they're still way, way brighter and larger than a 2w bike light.
But maybe the police and other emergency vehicles in your area use smaller lights?
That said, I have the light you have. It's a good light. But it's not going to trick anybody into thinking you are an emergency vehicle. It probably won't even fool anybody into thinking you're a motorcycle -- you need a lot more light even for that.