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From: Ann Arbor, MI
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EL&G is the name of this forum.
Your statement that you know you have lights that "cannot be missed" makes exactly my point about why I think you light fanatics are fundamentally misguided: ever more light is not any kind of insurance at all.
Accidents don't happen primarily because drivers literally don't see bikes; they happen because though the critical information was detectable, the driver failed to attend/notice because his mental resources were focused elsewhere. Often times, a driver will claim that s/he did not "see" a plainly visible bike, pedestrian or car. This is entirely possible because much of the information processing occurs outside of awareness, and the driver was just not aware they saw the other person. Adding more and brighter lights does not change that; an extra watt does not mean you "cannot be missed." Emergency response vehicles get hit, even with sirens.