Re: Riding at night: a strategy for survival?

"Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <1auhca968r2go$.15yl7mzrokpf2.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> _ <jtayNOSPAMlor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 19:36:06 +0200, Jens Müller wrote:
>>
>>> ComandanteBanana schrieb:
>>>> On May 1, 5:24 pm, Jens Müller <usenet-11-2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> ComandanteBanana schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, now my next door neighbor wants to ride at midnight... And
he
>>>>>> ain't one of those crazy bums on a Huffy. He even bought a vest
with
>>>>>> blinking lights
>>>>> Args. Please don't use this blinking bull****s. It just distracts 
>>>>> other
>>>>> drivers and makes them focus on the blinking.
>>>>
>>>> So how is it the blinking rear lights are OK?
>>>
>>> They aren't ok.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> There's a belief that it's more difficult for
> an observer to determine the speed and vector
> of a blinking, rather than steady light in the
> darkness of night.  Perhaps blinking lights
> confuse our human, pathological tendency of
> Persistance Of Vision.  What're those things
> called?  Oh, yeah: "optical illusions."  I
> suppose there's a wariness about blinking
> lights creating optical illusions.

Or epileptic seizures.