• Is there any evidence these floor lights work to increase visibility to drivers? Is it more for peds? Because if not, it's a waste of battery power.

    The simply fact is, most of the times I've been hit, the cunts weren't looking out their windows, they were looking at phones or something else in the car or just not looking at all before turning.

  • There is no antidote for cuntily not looking, but also not sure it tracks to be fatalistic about things that help mitigate risk in other circumstances.

    What evidence do you need to see? Subjectively,I find the downlights on my Seemee work better than single source lights as they reflect on bike + me as well as demarking road space under the bike. Harder to miss is harder to miss, and I'm pretty confident this gives drivers more readily visual information about a cyclist (size, speed, direction, etc) but also is more obvious / discernable at distance and in peripheral views, at a glance, etc. I do not need a flawed study to tell me that.

  • For me, I just don't want to sacrifice battery life and/or my own night vision. I don't know if either of these are really an issue, having never used "down lighting" but I also don't see how they couldn't be to some extent.

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