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> the old style lights, flashlight bulb filament,
> rotating, were soothing, informational but not
> OVERPOWERING
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> today's lights have two major flaws:
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> #1 they are so bright that at night they block
> vision of a dangerous traffic situation for which
> the cop car is on-scene to handle (neon flash
> bright on blackness makes everything hardly
> visible. i just think engineers in the past
> weren't that stupid, is the thing)
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> #2 they flash at a rate causing EPILEPSY (that
> combined with the neon flash effect is bad).
> drunk drivers exhibit a kind of epilepsy and react
> badly to the flashing: it is this which is likely
> the reason drunk drivers "brains shut off" and
> steer into cop cars instead of away from them (the
> drunks on highways passing traffic pull-overs -
> many tragedies due to that). i bet if tested that
> any bright flashers (amber road maintenance or
> police) cause drunks to steer wildly.
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> #4 the effect together causes allot of
> endangerment which is backed by many accidents,
> deaths, and arrests: CAUSED BY THOSE DAMN UPGRADED
> LIGHTS
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> #5 visual clues. to have depth perception the
> physics of light needs to illuminate an area so
> the mind can process depth. omitting lessons: the
> situations above eliminate visual clues - which is
> very dumb to do on highways or even unlit
> intersections with a traffic incident - even at
> slow speeds and people who are not drunk: people
> react dumbly when they can't see and there is an
> unusual situation they can't see.
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> it became popular to make brighter lights, using
> more radio shack electronics over the years.
> electronics hobby addict stuff.
>
> for some reason the police just let them keep
> doing it without TESTING what these thoughless
> hobby hacks are doing to their cop cars, in my
> opinion
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> today we have something like a NEON FLASH BULB
> lights - which i feel never would have been legal
> in the past despite the fact they were available
> for purchase
>
> I spoke with the State of Virginia (gov office and
> state police) about the matter, but they were
> absolutely obstinate and oblivious in hearing the
> short call.
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> (many safety things were tested in California, and
> Maryland - MD made the Amber turn signals a
> specific color code in one such test. today:
> import cars don't even use amber turn signals - so
> if a light is out and they tap breaks you may
> think it's a turn signal (no reason not to). i
> think we're getting billed for testing still but i
> don't think they are testing any longer.)
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