TTAC commentator Celebrity208 writes:
Sajeev:
I’d always thought that police crash investigators would check the tail light bulbs of a car that was rear ended to determine if its lights were on at the time of the crash. I thought it had something to do with the way the filament was broken/burnt/etc. So my question is two-fold, am I crazy and do they do this, and if so how might LED tail lights remove this piece of forensic evidence regarding correctly operating brake lights at the time of an accident (presuming the fault was contested)?
Posted in News Blog, Piston Slap
Tagged as accident, Event Data Recorder, filament, headlights, light bulb, on, tail lights
Tagged as accident, Event Data Recorder, filament, headlights, light bulb, on, tail lights
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