From the original article, linked from this article:
> Moreover, during intense braking scenarios, it flashes proportionately to the braking intensity.
Is it just me who finds this behaviour to be a regression? If I see a brake light on a motorbike, I know that the bike is slowing, and I respond accordingly. An urgent flashing brake light doesn't make me react faster, but it does serve to confuse and distract my brain.
Flashing brake lights are super annoying. Flashing lights are attention-grabing and thus distracting when you are trying to observe the whole scene and not just fixate on the vehicle in front of you.
Or if you are the type of driver that fixates on the vehicle in front of you, and a vehicle to the side has flashing brake lights, then it distracts you from the vehicle in front of you.
They should be illegal, and they already probably are illegal - in my state, if the brake pedal is pushed, the brake light must be on, and if it is flashing, then it is alternating between on and OFF. (And a judge does not care if "technically it is 1% on and not completely off" - it looks off.)
Next time you are in traffic, imagine if every vehicle in front of you had flashing lights.
> Moreover, during intense braking scenarios, it flashes proportionately to the braking intensity.
Is it just me who finds this behaviour to be a regression? If I see a brake light on a motorbike, I know that the bike is slowing, and I respond accordingly. An urgent flashing brake light doesn't make me react faster, but it does serve to confuse and distract my brain.