BIKE: Pandora's lights

John SomdeCerff jsomdecerff
Sun Nov 21 09:36:05 PST 2004


So it looks like everybody is good with flashing amber/yellow lights if 
used in addition to the required lights.  (Any color but red, white, or 
blue should be ok, right?  Green would be so unusual to see it may be 
even better.)
I believe I've read of a study that shows drunk drivers are drawn to red 
lights.  I seem to remember that a decade or two ago highway patrol cars 
in Oklahoma added the blue lights because too many officers were getting 
hit by drunk drivers when they had someone pulled over.
So does anybody know of a good amber flashing LED light?  (I'd like to 
make my own that would double as a turn signal, but it will probably 
take me many months to get around to it.)
Thanks.
John Somdecerff

Michael Bluejay wrote

> (1) a lamp on the front of the bicycle that emits a  white light  
> visible from a distance of at least 500 feet in  front of the 
> bicycle;  and  

> (B) a lamp that emits a red light visible from a  distance of 500 
> feet  to the rear of the bicycle.

Somebody wrote:

>>> I looked it up and here's what I found, which seems to apply only 
>>> to  motor vehicles:
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Sec. 547.305.  RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF LIGHTS.  ... (c)  A person 
>>> may  not operate a motor vehicle equipped with a red, white, or 
>>> blue  beacon, flashing, or alternating light......
>>> Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  Amended  
>>> by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 380, Sec. 1, eff. July 1, 1999.
>>> -----------------------------
>>> 



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