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Originally Posted by masraum
Absolutely, brake check, is the opposite of what you should be doing. But, you do need a means of communicating with other drivers. Often, that's lights of some sort. If you're in heavy traffic, say, in the middle lane of 3-4 lanes of traffic, and you can't move left or up, and there's a guy on your rear, yes, hitting the brakes is a bad route to go, but how is a quick 2-3 flash of the hazards any different from a turn signal (especially if you've got no way to actually change lanes)?
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In retrospect, I can see from where this conversation went, that my description of "tapping" my brake lights wasn't clear. Funny, sometimes, when we think we are "communicating", even with the written word or when speaking, how we can think we got the message across but really did not. This one is clearly on me, since no one picked up on what I was trying to say.
When I "flash" my brake lights, or "tap" them, or use them to try to "communicate" without slowing down, I do just that - I "flash" them or "tap" them. Like tap dance on the pedal. I am flashing them rapidly in an effort to get someone's attention. So, essentially, it would make no difference how i activated them - the following driver couldn't tell the difference. Brake pedal, emergency flashers - wouldn't look any different.