Originally Posted by noglider

@JohnJ80, I agree with @PaulRivers is saying, and perhaps it's because I understand it. I don't think he's saying he wouldn't absent-mindedly fail to pull over when a patrol car behind him is flashing his lights. It's not that he has no choice about pulling over, but he does have very little choice in noticing the lights.

I don't see him stating or implying that less visible is safer. There's no argument that more light makes us safer, but only up to a point. There is a point of diminishing returns, and that might be at about the same point when lights annoy others. If those two points are the same (or just close) then it makes sense to maintain our light output at that level or lower. Annoyance alone is not an asset, not that you claimed that it is, but it's a point worth saying anyway, so that we don't dismiss the negative value of annoyance.