And this idea came to my mind. Auto companies spend so much on designing the vehicles, advertise so much about safety features and then there are goverment bodies that make standards for safe roads and drivng, and a whole lot of people work to enforce it.
Well I just want them to think about the brakelights. This is what you would see..
Whenever you see these red lights turned on, you instinctly step on your brakes. But you never know how hard the guy infront of you has hit his brakes. My problem is that I love driving at speeds which leaves me with little reaction time. So the information that the guy infront of me has hit the brakes is not enough.
So what happens now is, you go into an auto mode... a very swift control loop gets into action. Eyes keep measuring the decreasing gap between you, the brain keeps calculating the rate of de-cceleration required, your calf muscles starts pressing the brakes to the right extent. For a successful outcome, this loop probably needs to be executed several hundreds times in a second.
An excellent system, which hasnt failed me yet but... what I want is a simple design change in everyone's brakelights, that gives a little more information to the guy behind you. I am sure you would not only like to know that the guy has hit the brakes, but you want to know how hard he has hit... You need not guess if he is slowing down to have a look at the lady passing by, or just has a wonderful discovery about a new pothole right infront of him (if you are in India..then this is the case most of the time), or its just the bullwhip effect of the stupidity of a fellow driver somewhere ahead..
So how about something like this.. A simple vertical arrangement of LEDs..
It would drastically cut down the reaction time required.. and for those of you are OK with drawing a parallel from the classical economic theory of "scare resources ", believe me you could save your brains from these needless dissipation power.
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