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I say this as a fellow cyclist so please don't misunderstand me:
If your bike blinks, I hate you. You're not more visible, because I have to look away or feel like I'm being attacked by an industrial grade strobe-light. Your lights are too bright, it's pointed directly into my eyes. The blinking only irritates my eyes further.
If you want to be visible, use an excessive amount of retroreflective tape because that only makes you bright to the source emitter and it makes you far brighter than your 3000 lumen rear LEDs do.
100% agree and I feel like some of the onus is on the light manufacturers to provide some notes as to the safest and most equitable operation
I HATE cycling in the city when the two lanes are adjacent as the power and all the different modes make it super distracting, but you can't exactly flag these people down to explain... Grrr