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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