third brakelight

[Phil Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:37:48 GMT
>From: quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)
>Subject: 85  4ksQ questions

>
>The German ADAC has a neat little pamphlet with some pictures of the back of
>the heads of people killed by poorly-applied rear window brake lights in
>frontal impact collisions.
>
>IMO they're a fad, and a dangerous one.

Hmmm. The DRL fad is one that I believe is dangerous (in the present
haphazard semi-implementation by a certain N. Amer. country whose flag has
stars and stripes), but would you explain why you regard the 3rd brakelight
as "dangerous"?  Is it that drivers become used to focussing their
attention on a spot where not _all_ vehicles have a brakelight? Or...?

Phil Rose

Phil Rose		Rochester, NY
'89 100			pjrose@servtech.com