On 2/14/2018 7:11 AM, jbeattie wrote:

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A tiny little one LED lamp that reduces the number of SOLO accidents by over one-quarter. Moreover, the benefits were greatest during the day and not at twilight or even night -- which is odd.

Why is that odd? At night, most riders in that area were probably
already using some sort of lights, but most were probably not turning
them on in the daytime, either to save the battery or to reduce drag.

There is just not going to be a double-blind study, conducted in 37
different cities throughout the world, to determine that the same
benefits that DRLs provide to motorcycles and vehicles, are enjoyed by
cyclists using DRLs, At some point you have to take the smaller studies
and realize that while they may not be perfect, neither are they
severely flawed.

Understand that those that dismiss the benefits of DRLs are not doing so
because they actually believe that there are no benefits, they are doing
so because it is part of an agenda that they are promoting. It's the
same thing with helmets. When every study shows a benefit, it makes no
difference to them. They'll search for any extremely small issue with
the study and try to blow it up out of proportion. Yet no one would
think any worse of them if they simply stated "yes, there is a benefit
to wearing a helmet if you're in a head-impact crash, but those crashes
are sufficiently rare that there is no need for a compulsory helmet law,
and each adult should be free to choose the amount of risk they are
willing to accept."