Yup, that's pretty much what I thought at the time.
Now that we've saturated the road with 3rd brake lights, it's about time to
require a 4th brake light, on a pole.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 10/19/06 5:58 PM, Denise Thorpe at xyzabcde@earthlink.net wrote:
> I'm alarmed at the direction cars are going too. I was annoyed at the third
> brake light that makes 2-brake-light cars invisible. But then our cars made
> 6-volt VWs invisible. The justification for the third brake light was that
> statistics said that cars with the extra brake light had fewer accidents. But
> this was when third brake lights were rare and the cars around them probably
> slammed into each other in surprise. They didn't keep statistics about
> accidents _near_ the 3-brake-light cars. No conclusion here, just adding fuel
> to the fire.
>
> Denise Thorpe, driving a '67 B around Charlotte because the stinkin' Volvo has
> no brake lights.
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