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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 01:39 AM
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Lightbulb New Break Light System

Has anyone here seen the W211 new Break Light system? It's applied on the SL500, how about E350????
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 01:42 AM
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Are you talking about Adaptive Brake Lights? or LED brake lights?
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 01:48 AM
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I mean the Adaptive Breake Lights.
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 12:27 PM
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Are you talking about Adaptive Brake Lights? or LED brake lights?
What are Adaptive Brake Lights? When one burns out and the other one comes on?
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 12:36 PM
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i think he is talking about the adaptive headlights, where i think i read ( not sure ) that under heavy breaking it sort of flashes to call more attention to the driver behind you
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 12:47 PM
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Flashing brake lights it is:

http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...id/2050228.003

I don't know where the "adaptive" part comes from, unless the lights flash only when you go beyond a certain threshold of braking pressure, or flash more rapidly depending on how hard you are braking.

Flashing brake lights can only be good, although it could be quite a light show in heavy traffic at night if everyone had them. Sometimes when I'm in heavy freeway traffic, I'll tap the brakes repeatedly to make them "flash" when I have to slow down, if I don't need a sudden stop but have doubts about whether the fool in the SUV behind me talking on his phone will also slow down. I'm probably not the only one who does that.

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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 05:14 PM
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If it's anything like the ones on bimmer 7 series, the brake lights get brighter as you step on the brake harder under emergency conditions. They advertised that feature heavily on TV ads.

Flashing brake lights look so cheesy, seems to be something that belongs to ricers.
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Old Aug 5, 2005 | 06:16 PM
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Interesting discussion on the general idea of a “better brake light”…

http://www.whynot.net/view_idea?id=30
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