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Lights on bicycles
lights on bicycles
lookin' like a foooooooo
with your lights on bicycles
Anything would be an improvement for the masses I (hardly) see riding at night with zero illumination. A serious pet peeve. As a cyclist who drives for work, it's highly stressful to have to worry about invisible riders. Tonight I was surprised by two witless bike ninjas creeping up on my right on Western Ave.
PLEASE RIDE WITH LIGHTS!!!!
Anything would be an improvement for the masses I (hardly) see riding at night with zero illumination. A serious pet peeve. As a cyclist who drives for work, it's highly stressful to have to worry about invisible riders. Tonight I was surprised by two witless bike ninjas creeping up on my right on Western Ave.
PLEASE RIDE WITH LIGHTS!!!!
Interesting article. This is the first time I see some data backing up the existence of the so-called moth effect.
I wonder whether the flashing pattern has something to do with it. For example, I find the PB Superflash in blinking mode to be positively vertigo inducing. Lights that have a simpler blinking pattern, don't have this effect on me.
Bicycle friendly countries like the Netherlands and Germany have always required bicycle lights to be solid. Maybe they know something we don't
Duppie-- is this passage what you were referring to as "data?"
The knowledge of human perception calls into question the use of red warning lights when the vehicle is parked in or next to the highway. Instead of warning people away, the red emergency lights actually draw drivers towards the lights. This so-called moth effect refers to "a state of narrowed attention associated with excessive concentration on some object or task with the resulting in a loss of voluntary control over response." People drive where they look! Drugged, drunk, elderly and fatigued drivers will drive right into the rear of the vehicle in the road and drive off the road to hit the vehicle parked on the shoulder that is displaying the red warning lights. This happens more than we like to admit. How many close calls have you had? Or is there something else in another link? I'd be interested to see actual data about this too.
Duppie said:Interesting article. This is the first time I see some data backing up the existence of the so-called moth effect.
I wonder whether the flashing pattern has something to do with it. For example, I find the PB Superflash in blinking mode to be positively vertigo inducing. Lights that have a simpler blinking pattern, don't have this effect on me.
Bicycle friendly countries like the Netherlands and Germany have always required bicycle lights to be solid. Maybe they know something we don't
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