Whatever happened to the idea that you leave enough room between yourself
and the cars in front that the brake lights of the car in front of you give
you plenty of warning that it is going to stop? Or, (since you are paying
attention and are a safe distance behind) you see the guy in front of you
have a collision and have time to stop yourself?
I have heard your argument before, and I have tried to "see THROUGH the
glass in the car in front" to the third light of the car in front of them,
and in most cases I can't see nuttin'. Maybe that's because I'm in my
Midget and the vehicle in front of me is a van, SUV, or an 8-foot high
pickup truck? Guess I'll have to buy a van or SUV to see the third brake
lights ahead of me. Or just stay back a safe distance and watch the lights
of the car in front of me like I do now.
I still think the third light on the Big Healey was ridiculous.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain
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> From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
> To: Steve Byers <byers@cconnect.net>
> Cc: Scott Johnston <sjonston@dreamscape.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Third Brake Lights
> Date: Sunday, July 05, 1998 12:37 AM
>
> Steve Byers wrote:
> > I've been wondering when some safety guru will decide that if a third
brake
> > light is safer, then it would be a really neat idea to force everybody
to
> > have a fourth or fifth.
>
> Well, I hate to interrupt a good "baseless attack on authority",
> but the third brake like DOES have a point.
>
> Because of where it is located, you can see THROUGH the glass
> in the car in front of you to see the car in front of him
> braking.
>
> It's simply an advance warning that the guy in front of
> you is going to be braking soon because the guy in front
> of HIM is braking now.
>
> It also means that if the guy in front if you is snoozing
> and is going to rear end the guy in front of him, you don't
> have to follow and turn it into a pileup.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
> tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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