Originally Posted by
Daniel4
..... Maybe instead of red taillights, have flashing blue. From far away, blue registers as a service vehicle and motorists will prepare to change lanes. There are too many kinds of red lights. It just confuses drivers for filtering what are real concerns from what is visual noise.
In the USA, there are laws that reserve the use of blue lights for emergency vehicles.
I think that flashing amber lights might be more consistent with the idea of alerting motorists that something unusual is on the road that is moving slowly and requires their attention.
About 20 years ago, I had rigged up a home-made nicad battery pack in a clear water bottle. The nicad battery powered the headlight. As an extra feature, I added some yellow LEDs in the water bottle that lit up when the headlight was on. This provided extra visibility to the sides.. or at least that was my goal.
Steve in Peoria