Foxbat
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It seems like ambulances and fire apparatus in US have more lightning (lightbars, strobes, grill lights, etc.) than anywhere in the world. I have recently seen a rescue truck (about a size of a large ambulance) with a combo lightbar (traditional lightbar on top of a full-size LED lightbar), 2 rows of grill lights (each row could have made a decent little lightbar for, say, a police cruiser), couple pairs of strobes on the back, strobes on sides...
Is all this really needed? Is there such thing as too much visibility? Is there evidence that this much lightning decreases (or maybe incresas) accident rate?
I know that preventing red lights' "moth effect" was the idea behind putting arrow-sricks and amber lights on back of trucks and police cruisers, but I wasn't able to find much more info. Is there any "optimal" amount of lightning as shown by research?
Is all this really needed? Is there such thing as too much visibility? Is there evidence that this much lightning decreases (or maybe incresas) accident rate?
I know that preventing red lights' "moth effect" was the idea behind putting arrow-sricks and amber lights on back of trucks and police cruisers, but I wasn't able to find much more info. Is there any "optimal" amount of lightning as shown by research?