At 12:59 PM 7/4/98 -0400, Steve Byers wrote:
> Or I guess I could always mount a third brake light on a 4 foot pole off
>> the bumper. That should put it right about SUV eye level.......
>
>If the SUV driver is paying attention to the road, he should see your
>lights. If he isn't, it doesn't matter how many lights you have back
>there. My wife's Dodge Spirit has a third brake light. Didn't
>matter....some guy still caved in her rear bumper while she was stopped at
>a light with her foot on the brake.
>
>I saw a Big Healey once at a car show with a third brake light. It would
>have been funny if it hadn't been so ridiculous.
>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.
>
PErsonally I like the third brake light on modern cars. I spend a great
deal of time driving on often foggy mountain roads, and it's often
difficult to guage when the fellow in front of me is hitting the brakes
without it. I try and leave an adequate following disatance between me and
the car in front, but often the fellow behind me often doesn't. It's nice
to know well in advance so I can reduce my speed more slowly and avoid
having that Jeep Grand Cherokee or the jacked up chevey pickup rear end me.
Sorta like why I put non original three point restraints in my '62 Midget,
and I may even go so far asto put in later model seats with the headrests,
since I'm not fond of neck injuries. Now if I can only find a parts car
with a complete usable disk brake setup for the fron end...
Greg
Greg
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Yeats
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