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

Good idea, but instead of getting brighter they should blink. The harder you brake, the more rapidly they should flash.

I think its a great idea. How I would do it:

1. Have the 2 main lights stay as is

2. Have LED light bar on top and it would light up left to right based on pressure applied, kind of like a volume bar.

In rush hour this would be helpful. Or when behind a bigger vehicle and can’t see cars ahead of them.

If you clowns could drive, had any sense of depth perception and an attention span longer than your peckers, and wouldn’t dick around in your phones in traffic you wouldn’t think this way.

The third brake light should do this with flashing as necessary.

Stop following so close, dumbass.

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.

I always thought this. They make headlights bright as frick, when it should be the taillights that are bright. The exact opposite what it should be.

Everyone would get tired of it quick. Sitting in traffic with bright red all around you.

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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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I agree with you. What a great word salad trying to appear like Mr. 2024. No one is going to read that shite and take it to heart on TD.

Why should lights need to get brighter? As long as you’re not some drunk coonass coming up from cutoff that can’t see some tail lights .25 miles away.

But when every blowhard has an EV like poster above, the differential gps will have us all locked in unless, godforbid, one of the 2 gps’s in your vehicle goes down and there’s no heading.

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

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Yes I was trying to think of a concept for graduated brake lighting where the harder you pressed, the higher up a scale it went. Makes no sense to have them at an all or nothing setting as they are now.