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@BringMeMyFix
I'm fucked up enough already.
I don't mind flashing lights (up/down/blink, but not random disco shit), and I still think the flash differentiates you from other traffic. I flash, therefore I have no motor. And often a flash setting lessens the glare e.g. my Blackburn Mars 3 only has 1 LED on at any one time during the up/down flash mode.
If any rear light is overly bright, you have no option but to follow it like a fucking tractor beam - nothing else exists. Perfect for solo rides, or a backstop rider, who is literally the lanterne rouge.
(I wonder if it's worth people putting something diffuse over the more hardcore rear lights - tissue paper, vaseline, whatever.)