Strobe Lights on School Buses

Plus, those strobes are bright enough to wake the dead – that’s why the attract zombies.

I can’t help but feel that some of the dramatic warning above about flicker vertigo doesn’t really apply to school buses. IMHO the strobes serve to get the attention of drivers and break them out of their routine commuter fugue state, and so far I’ve never been hypnotized or disoriented by them.

people who suffer from Flicker vertigo shouldn’t be school bus drivers. no one should drive their buses at high altitudes.

He must feel strongly about this, as he revived a similar thread with the exact same post about an hour ago as well.

For all that are irritated by the yellow strobes;
Just be thankful the strobes are not BLUE!
I drive a tour bus at a state park and I stop at all the track’s on the tour. Of course there are also cars sitting on the tracks that haven’t moved for 33 years. :wink:
And it brings back memory’s of the night that 6 empty cars went down the same tracks due to negligence on my part(i wasn’t alone, but…) as a car rider my 1st year as a “Iron Ore Miner”
Depending on how the tour is going I sometimes bring that incident up. (no injury’s)

I noticed our guest GREE resurected two threads to note his complaint about strobe lights on school buses.
I don’t think the lights on buses qualify as “strobe” but more as “flashing”.
They seem to flash about once per second.
The British Health and Safety Executive recommend that a net flash rate for a bank of strobe lights does not exceed 5 flashes per second, at which only 5% of photosensitive epileptics are at risk.
These bus lights are well outside that.

While this zombie was revived this morning, the post was duplicated in two threads. I’ve left the other one open.

samclem, MOderator