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@Velocio
There's nothing cool about being smooshed by a vehicle that didn't see you.
But that doesn't mean you need to go get a bright yellow nodders jacket.
Just put on enough reflective stuff (on your bag, go look at Two'n'fro's Claqs), make sure you have adequate rear lighting (not those pathetically small ones) and that batteries are never more than a month old (LEDs aren't very good at communicating low battery, and they might look bright when you first light them but them dim rapidly)... and finally make sure you're front lighting is adequate to be seen.
Adequate lighting in my opinion is: Highly visible at 50m in torrential rain. So if you're relying on the smallest "minimal is cool" LED... you got it wrong.