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- Drunks run into all sorts of things. With or without flashing lights or any lights at all.
- It's not established that the "moth effect" is significant. (The on!y study I'm aware of is one involving snow plows.)
- How many police cruisers get "nailed by drunks"? All we know is some of them have been. We have no idea of "how many". How many are "nailed" by not drunks?
- Even with such an effect, you might be safer with flashing lights (not all drivers are drunk).
- Some countries ban flashing lights on bicycles (maybe, it's only Germany). No reason is indicated. Maybe, it's because flashing is reserved for emergencies. If some of them allow them, doesn't that suggest they aren't less safe?
- Even with such an the effect, emergency vehicles all use flashing lights. Do you really think they do because they think it's less safe?
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Perhaps you should contact the governments of the Netherlands and Germany and share the error in their ways. It would be real a shame letting your apparent expertise go to waste.
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Last edited by rsbob; 10-21-20 at 08:46 PM.