Using motorcycle brake light switch for quicker brake lights?

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I find it all bit of a moot point personally, since I don’t really use my brakes all that much to begin with. I tend to decelerate mainly just by taking my foot off the gas, and engine braking & downshifting as necessary. And I do this in both manual and automatic transmission cars (this is a bit easier and more effective in the manuals of course, for the most part).

I’ve always found that if I give myself enough time and room (i.e. to the car in front of me, or to the next stop/stoplight, etc.), I only really need to use my brakes occasionally, such as when finally coming to a full stop, or in ‘panic’ situations, etc. Doesn’t really even take all that much extra distance/spacing, either — the old “2 second rule” (for spacing to car ahead of you) usually gives sufficient time such that I rarely need to use the brakes to slow down and maintain safe distance to whatever’s in front of me.

That’s been my experience over the years, anyway. And that includes driving in congested cities, downhill in the mountains, etc., etc. Note that I do have good quality brake light switches installed in my VW Bug, and they seem to work fine for me. Also, I’ve only ever been rear-ended once, and that was by a felon fleeing police during a car chase — I never saw him coming (was at night, and he had switched his lights off), so no brakes or brake lights were involved in that incident…
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