Date:         Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:18:54 -0400
Reply-To:     Janette & Dick Smith <varieze@ASCENT.NET>
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From:         Janette & Dick Smith <varieze@ASCENT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fwd: Re: Tail lights?
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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Our Honda GoldWing has a lighting group in the trunk area putting it at most
driver's eye level.    These lights are quite bright and red and pulse from
side to side.      Since I've had them it has cut the tailgating to almost
zero.    I'm even in the habit of holding the brake on all the time as I sit
at an intersection, day or nite.    If some one starts tailgating I squeeze
the brake a little and they usually back off.    If not I go to the shoulder
till they pass us by.    These days we feel very vulnerable out there with
all the nuts on the road.

Janette & Dick Smith
85 Westfalia--Sally Ann
Norwich, NY
----- Original Message -----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Tail lights?


> At 21:06 8/27/99 -0500, Joel Walker wrote:
> >but now on the camper, i've decided on adding a couple of jc whitney 8"
(or
> >so) LED strips to the rear of the rear upper shelf (where the air
>
> Hi Unc -- The reason the *single* high-level brake light is mandated is
> that in testing with volunteers over several years in the early '90s (of
> various combinations of supplemental brake lights) the *only* one that
made
> a significant difference in rear-end collisions was the single raised one
> -- and it reduced rear-enders by FIFTY PER CENT vs the expected rate.
>
> cheers
> david
> ps -- OTOH the twin ones are great for pretending to be a police car in
the
> dark :->
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>