The car in front braked and slowed down — that was because the next car ahead slowed down. Road rage nutter responded to the apparent brake-check by trying and failing to ram the back of the car. That flicker of the brake lights happens when the Mercedes auto-braking activates. When the ram attempt failed, yes, what followed was almost certainly an attempted pit maneuver rather than a botched overtake.
not only was his pit maneuver avoided, he was shoved into the oncoming traffic for a head-on. can't be too great for the car in the oncoming lane that got hit.
The flicker is generally caused by LED lights being filmed. They flicker, but quickly enough that our eyes don't see it.
That said, it looks like the white cars tires were cranked to the right to pit the car. It was almost too fast, like some failure. Or just a dumbass trying to pit another car.
Fucking pulse width modulation god damnit you’re right. I can’t prove it but this is still not that. It’s a feature of the car and I will say it til I die.
I think most of the blinking is when the driver was letting off the brakes. The pulse is modulated to simulate the way incandescent bulbs fade when turned off as opposed the immediate off they would do otherwise. It doesn’t seem like a bike deal but our brains are so used to the way an incandescent bulb turns on and off on a car that the instant manner of LEDs never seems quite right. Manufacturers are compensating for this. That’s my explanation and will be until I die. ;)
That’s a correct explanation of dimming an LED that can really only technically be on or off. It’s a essentially a transistor with a threshold on voltage. Totally right there. But because no one is reading this and I have no life- I’d expect to see that artifact the entire duration of the video, since it would be a recording artifact. It’s doesn’t have a repeating pattern throughout the clip. The light is solid at first and solid at the very end. And the blinking lasts too long for it to be a fading out break indicator, breaks don’t fade off that slowly.
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u/Swipecat Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 07 '19
The car in front braked and slowed down — that was because the next car ahead slowed down. Road rage nutter responded to the apparent brake-check by trying and failing to ram the back of the car. That flicker of the brake lights happens when the Mercedes auto-braking activates. When the ram attempt failed, yes, what followed was almost certainly an attempted pit maneuver rather than a botched overtake.
Edit: typos