--- BMC-1 <bmc-1@qwest.net> wrote:
> They found that people saw the third
> brake light more often first vs the normal lights, than they had
> ever thought. The number of rearenders of the Postal vehicles was
> reduced by a considerable amount to something like 65% over the
> previous years.
Yes, but I'd maintain that a lot of this was due to the novelty
value. I remember Pacific Northwest Bell cars having them, too.
I remember it because it was novel. What I'd like to know is
what happens if you take them *off* the cars? Does the accident
rate go up? Remember, too, that a classic car has a novelty value
of it's own. It tends to draw people's attention whether the
brakes are being used or not.
> I am not sure but I also think it was the Feds who came up
> with the day time
> lights for higher visiblity of the same fleets.
It's not a US requirement. It is a Canadian requirement.
Many US cars have them as well because it's easier to make
them all that way than to make two different models, especially
since cars for the Canadian and Us markets are otherwise
virtually identical.
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