Posted on 02/13/2021 3:10:03 PM PST by Melinator2
Please imagine for one moment you are driving down a lonely highway at dusk. Suddenly, in the oncoming lane, green front brake lights begin snapping on in rapid sucession. You are alerted to the bull moose crossing from their side and instead of smashing into it and dying like so many before you, you manage to brake, swerve and avoid the animal entirely. ..
Imagine you are crossing at a pedestrian light and you see a vehicle coming at speed. For an instant you wonder whether he has a foot on the brake? Then his green lights come on. Yes he has a foot on the brake. Is that oncoming vehicle about to turn left in front of you? Or does he have his foot on the brake? Yes he is stopped and his front brake light is green. It will go out once he proceedsl...
I hope that all freepers will feel free to read and consider my paper. I would gratefully welcome insightful and carefully considered analysis both for and against the proposition that green front brake lights would save lives.
So you can pull out in front of oncoming traffic that appears to be braking, only to find out they were just riding their brakes but not really slowing down.
T-Boned.
Green means go.
If you want to make cars safer remove the seat belts and air bags. Replace them with a 10 inch long stainless steel spike in the center of the steering wheel pointed at the drivers chest.
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Author Mark Lesniak must be paid by the word. That is the longest, most jumbled, incomprehensible mess of an article I’ve read in a long time.
Cut to the chase. “Put a green light in front of cars that goes on when the driver steps on the brake.”
My #1 Rule for crosswalks — DO NOT assume the driver is slowing down or stopping. Do NOT cross until the cars have come to a complete stop.
I don’t need a green light in front of the car to tell me that.
This verbose article is a waste of time...
It serves to obfuscate the idiocy of a green light on the front of a car...
There must have been a “satire” alert that was supposed to be in the title...
Wow. Talk about your tl;dr.
I nearly fell asleep NOT reading this article.
Exactly!
Author and poster looking for a payday.
Yeah no kidding. This article reads like a bunch of overpaid educrats spending tens of thousands of dollars on a government grant who came up with some stupid solution to a problem no one‘s even heard about.
Sorry your time was wasted.
Much like rear brake lights yes
Thunderbirds are go!
stolen comedy routine. Why have any indicator lights at all?
Never mind. Tags are closed now.
Do you need any lights on a car to tell you things? If some forgets to signal or has a brake light out, I bet you start fapping like a madman!!
All right. I thought I was the only one looking at the italics being left on. What the what?
I read halfway through the article and they never got to the point.
Sorry your time was wasted. Should we forego all signal lights on roadway vehicles because you are super? Or just the ones that seem normal to you. It is indeed a good thing someone thought of signal lights and rear brake lights in your world? but thinking outside the box is forbidden... or did you just want to sound dismissive and insulting
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