KPINVT
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Yes, I recognize that there is the potential for other motorists to not like my headlamp modulator, and potentially react badly to it which might increase my risk, but I think the improvement in my safety due to my increased visibility to all the other drivers out there outweighs that increase in risk, and overall the headlamp modulator improves my safety.
I 100% agree.
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Modulators are only one small part of my arsenal to try to increase my odds. But it is just that ODDS. Nothing is 100% effective. Very few things don't have side effects or unintended consequences.
But when your talking having maybe 50-75% of the brain dead people who wouldn't have seen you, actually see you vs. the 1 in a million who tries to hurt you because he DOES see you, I know which odds I'm going to play.
Remember the ultimate choice is up to each individual to do what he thinks will protect him the best. They are only odds, nothing is foolproof (and there are a lot of fools out there trying to kill you).
I can't agree more with everything you said above. I have direct personal experience of distracted drivers yakking on a cell phone or screwing with their sound systems or whatever being startled by something and jerking their steering wheel to their right away from me. The latest happened just this morning on the way home from work. I'm riding along with the sun off to the right behind me, some guy is about 50 yards away from me in the opposite lane, totally wrapped up in the phone conversation and not really minding where he was going plus drifting to his left when suddenly he looks up and jerks the wheel right.