Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Personally I think reflective clothing is more useful to cyclists than lights, when it comes to being seen. As far as seeing where they're going, it appears cyclists no longer care about that, since their lights are mostly aimed straight into motorists' eyes, rather than down at the road ...
I don't ride at night these days. When I did, I was mostly concerned with having a bright rear light. I agree that motorists do seem less adept at spotting cyclists than they used to be, but I don't see how the motorist using less illumination of the road ahead would really help that.
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Personally I think reflective clothing is more useful to cyclists than lights, when it comes to being seen
TripleS wrote:We want sufficient light for us to see what we need to see, and to ensure that we are seen by others. I agree we don't want less than that, but once we have sufficient lighting, anything extra could be counter-productive in some circumstances. I don't think we should be saying that that can't happen.
chriskay wrote:Astraist wrote: A car's dipped headlights are under seventh of the brightness required to cause dazzle.
That's a rather strange blanket statement; where do you get that figure from? It seems to me that there are too many factors involved to be dogmatic.
Astraist wrote:I have never encountered inconveniece caused by a well-aligned, clean dipped beam, nor has any student of mine complained about such inconveniece. I also found no proof in research for such inconvience or masking other road users.
However, we all encountered insufficient street lights, that offer poor view. I always instruct to use the full beam, unless another driver is there to be dazzled, even if there are street-lights. I also instruct to use dipped beams or dedicated DRL's during the day. I understand that the same advice is issued by Don Palmer and the Bespoke group. So to recommend not to use any sort of light at night driving on road with streetlights does not seem right for me..,
Kimosabe wrote:So when you're driving and nobody else is about, you use your main beam and then dip them when you see another road user?
This is the sort of info I would like to have been told during my IAM/RoADAR drives, even if none of them have been at night. Thank heavens for you guys and for this forum!
Kimosabe wrote:So when you're driving and nobody else is about, you use your main beam and then dip them when you see another road user?
This is the sort of info I would like to have been told during my IAM/RoADAR drives, even if none of them have been at night. Thank heavens for you guys and for this forum!
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