Actually red lights are more visible in the day light while blue lights are more visible in the night. That is why police cars have both red and blue lights on them. Blue lights are illegal in my state of Florida for anyone except an emergency vehicle. There are some roads that common sense needs to take over and just avoid biking on them. Having said that I have a Designshine 500 tail light on both my bike and my wife's bike along with two Cygolite Hot Shot lights on each bike on the left and right seat stay to try and make a triangle of light. The Designshine 500 tail light pretty much over powers the two Cygolite Hot Shot lights but I already had the Hot Shot lights so I used them on the seat stays. If being seen is your goal then get a Designshine 500 tail light as you will be seen or at least that excuse will taken away from the drivers. I had my wife ride ahead of me and she turned at the end of our block and kept going I could see her bike with the Designshine 500 tail at a good 45 to 50 degree angle through the houses and empty lots between me and her as she rode away and the Designshine 500 was very bright even at that angle.

The phone issue could be fixed over night if our law makers wanted to, all they would have to do is have the phone makers alter the software so that as soon as the phone detects it is moving at more than 5 mph it disables the internet feature and the texting feature. They could leave the phone call ability on or they could even alter that so that only 911 could be dialed and used when moving over 5 mph. That would end all the distracted driving concerning people texting and surfacing the internet and face booking while driving. I am all for that and even limiting ability to use the phone function as well as I see far to many people who as soon as they get in their car they are on the phone talking to someone and as soon as they finish with one person they dial up someone else. How many more people have to die before this problem is dealt with? The answer to that is when some very rich person's loved one is killed or some politicians loved one is killed and then you will see something done. Until then your and my life does not mean anything to our politicians.

I see truck drivers on the phone all the time and it is against federal law for them to drive and use their phone yet they do it all the time.

Fact: smart phones have only been around and starting to get popular since 2007. For over a century we made it just fine without the ability to text, make phone calls and surf the internet while driving, then came the smart phone and all of the sudden we are supposed to believe that we can't make it without having the ability to text, talk on the phone and surf the internet while we drive all over the past 7 years. To that I say bull hockey. It has been proven that texting, talking on the phone and surfing the internet while operating a vehicle is a deadly combination, it is past time to do something about it. Driving is a privilege not a right.

The above comes from someone who wants as little government involvement as possible in our life's but this is one area that needs to be addressed and a simple law saying it is illegal to text or surf the internet just does not work because most people don't even know basic traffic laws in the first place and those that do just break the law anyway. The only solution is to implement the software patch I pointed out above that turns off those features off as soon as speed reaches 5 mph and above. This update could also be sent out as a forced update that the end user could not decline so all phones would be updated. If a user tries to decline the update their phone simply will just keep cycling back to the update rendering their phone unusable until they accept it and it loads onto their phone.

The problem of texting and surfing the internet would be over and they could also end the phone glued to some peoples ear who are also driving distracted due to that phone call every minute they are driving via the same update.