Originally Posted by
LV2TNDM
It's obvious you're obsessed with flashing lights. They've been used on bikes for 50+ years, so good luck with your flashing light banning campaign. Methinks the issue is YOU.
Maybe focus your energies on road safety campaigns instead. 'Cause pedestrians probably aren't going to be wearing "hi-vis vests or clothing, flashing lights or helmets" any time soon, and they get wiped out by poor driving all the time. I'd welcome the day when I felt flashing lights were no longer required to cycle our public streets. That day in the US I fear will never come. Perhaps I'll relocate to Europe instead.
Ok people used DDT in their kids bedrooms and for how many years have people been using asbestos? The age argument doesn't hold up. The issue is not me, if the issue was me I would be using a flashing light (which I do not do).
I am not focusing my energies on hi-viz or any of that I am not really taking much energies towards this because it wouldn't end well for the selfish flashers.
If you feel like you are so unsafe that you need to make everyone else unsafe to give you a false sense of safety, maybe you need to stick to indoor riding. I have never once felt flashing lights will make me safer if you truly believe that you are sorely mistaken. The only road going vehicles using white flashing lights legally are emergency vehicles traveling at higher speeds. It is illegal for motorcycles and normal road going vehicles that aren't emergency vehicles in the U.S. why do you think you should be exempt from that?