Changing taillights out to LED's

Bumpyroad wrote:

Groover wrote:
I like the energy savings but safety is my main concern. As others have stated reliability is much better with LEDs but another advantage is that LEDs come on instantly while standard bulbs take about a tenth of a second to warm up. g.

do you have a link to that study? I am curious as to how it was set up. on the filament bulb, did they count when it started to glow or wait till it had reached maximum light, etc. IMHO a much larger contributor to an accident is the physical/mental/etc. state of the driver behind you and if a few milliseconds will make a difference, perhaps one should take a defensive driving course.
bumpy

Just watch some on the same circuit as I recommended and you will see for yourself. Think about how far you travel at highway speeds during that time and decide if you would like for the person behind you to have that extra warning regardless of his condition. I think that you will clearly see that it is more than a "few" milliseconds. Maybe you could do a video and count the number of frames between the time the LED comes on and the incandescent gets to full brightness.