Originally Posted by
CliffordK
We really need some new Federal standards for lighting.
Nope. The government does quite enough, thank you. if a rider chooses to run a cheezy and nearly useless light ... what, cops should issue tickets? Jail riders who don't meet the standard? Police forces should all buy new detectors to measure actual on-site lumens?
There are so many really good and fairly cheap lights out there ... anyone who doesn't have one isn't trying. And if the law required lights of a certain brightness ... then people too poor to buy them would get busted and fined. Considering how many lights are made overseas and imported by small businesses (likely some guy with a big garage and a little initiative) or sold on EBay, etc., by overseas vendors ... enforcement would be a nightmare.