re: Why don’t they make brake lights get brighter the harder you press?

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Wait until you find out that with an electric car and regenitve braking you don’t press the brakes as often to stop and you essentially have one pedal operation of a car. But I have a different take on the braking, instead of just one light with different intensities for various braking modes how about something like a light bar that shows the level of intensity of the brake, in an led line. One or two lights or line in the middle means light braking covering a third of the back, more lights covering 2/3 of the line moderate braking, a full line shows heavy, full intensity braking or emergency brake is engaged. This might be easier to understand than a subjective light intensity brightness scale. Any way with computerized monitoring sensors and new communications protocols sending telemetry data to the cars around you, the braking information will likely be shared wirelessly to your cars data and apply the brakes when needed so you don’t have to. I just saw something this week that some new cars even have some data collection modules that can receive signals from some lights that will send out to cars how much longer the light will stay red before turning green.

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