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Dear Ian,
Good p.m. and hope you're well. Let me clarify. I have a medium gray car. On a rainy day - when rain, spray/mist, and fog shroud a road - I need all the help I can get, just to be seen. There cannot be too many lights, at the back of my car.
If the trailing driver is misled by my two fog lights, and interprets them to mean that I'm slowing, that driver should apply his/her brakes. His/her car will slow. That widens the gap between us. How can a wider gap between the railing car, and my car, put me at risk?
If the trailing driver does not misinterpret the fog lights to be brake lights, s/he won't slow. Again, since I'm not slowing, the gap between us is unchanged. How does that put me at risk?
In sum, the "worst case" scenario, is that the trailing driver misreads my fog lights as brake lights, and so slows. Since I'm not slowing, the gap between my car and the trailing car gets wider. That's a good thing.
It is also the case, that I had two foglights on my 1985GL Wagon, direct-imported from Sweden. I never got rear-ended.
I am in 100% agreement with you, that many drive while their minds are elsewhere. That is lethally dangerous. In that situation, having more and brighter tail lights (so long as they're not blindingly bright) is a good thing.
Yours faithfully,
spook
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