Bright Back Light
It is a known fact to all drivers
that driving etiquette dictates that you switch bright head lights off when you
are on a 2 way street and there is a vehicle in front of you at night. Bright
lights can cause accidents because a driver temporarily has impaired vision.
Drivers when faced with a situation
where there is an incoming vehicle with bright headlights usually signal to the
opposing vehicle that they should turn off the bright light by blinking the
bright light himself. And when the opposing driver doesn’t stop, a driver
usually turns his bright lights on until the other driver succumbs to the
pressure.
That’s what I do!
So I noticed this when I was
driving and the vehicle behind me was on bright headlights. For me it was
dangerous because I could have an accident when I lose my sight temporarily at
night. So I wished that I had bright backlights in order to signal to the
driver behind me that he is bothering me just like what I would do if a vehicle
in front of me has bright headlights.
The vehicle behind me would have
no other recourse but to turn off his light.
Now this also solves another
problem of mine.
Aside from the unethical drivers
who turn bright lights behind, there was this instance when I was backing up at
night when a vehicle behind me backed up also. I noticed that the driver didn’t
know that I was backing up so I honked my horn. Because the horn is in front, I
think the driver didn’t notice me still so what I did was just to move forward
and give way. <blinking led lights? cum intermittent horn?> 3
This could’ve been avoided if I had
bright back lights because I could’ve just flashed the other driver so that he
would let me pass first since I was the one who first backed up.
Car manufacturers should consider
this because it could be an important tool in preventing accidents. Some
lawmakers could argue that it could cause more accidents but I firmly believe
that those things are still tools and that it depends on the user how he uses
it. 3
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