« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2019, 04:25:01 PM »
my personal opinion is the more lights and the wider the light pattern on the bike, the easier it is for cars to see us.
Agreed, to a point, and as long as they are not blinding/dazzling.
Seems motorists get confused by a single, really bright light. No spacing of the lights to judge distance, perhaps? Not sure.
That is my theory too, as well as wider angular visibility. Again, as long as it is not blinding- which is far too common now. Blinding/dazzling/whatever oncoming traffic (night OR day) doesn't help with visibility as much because it makes it not possible at all for them to judge distance because you can't be looked at directly. Assuming this would make them more cautious probably isn't true. So I would need to know the beam pattern of those lights. If they are not VERY well controlled (and most cheap lights are NOT well controlled- they throw out a wide and scattered pattern) and almost completely BELOW close and distant car mirror lines, I would use a fancy automatic switch setup to have them 10% or 15% brightness on low beam and 100% on high beam. There are some options for that out there which are pretty cool.
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