Originally Posted by
dwmckee
The trouble with this is that only some motorists slow down in this situation; some others are liable to plow on into whatever they cannot see... You never know which is behind you until it is too late to do anything about it.
Well, riding with high bright tail lights for the years that they've been around, I'd argue this is a a phoney argument. The vast majority of drivers either slow down or go way wide or both. No one wants to hit a cyclist and most drivers have been surprised to find a cyclist right in front of them because they were poorly lit. The first step to not getting hit as a cyclist is to be visible.
As a driver for decades more than that, I'd really say it's nuts argument. Seriously - do you really want to suggest that if someone sees a bright light they aim at it? If that were true, when drivers forget to dim their bright lights, we'd have more head on collisions than could be counted.
J.