Roadshow: Flashing white lights on bicycles: legal or not?

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Q When I'm driving I devotion seeing the blinky red taillights and the blinky white lights on the front of bicycles. They're some of the greatest safety inventions for the bicycle. But I improvise the blinky white headlight fails the definition of a "headlight. " Can you refresh readers on what lights and reflectors are required on a bicycle after unfathomable. Bikes are required at night to have a white light on the front, a red reflector on the rear, white or yellow reflectors on pedals, feet or ankles, and Caucasoid or yellow reflectors on both sides. It refers just to a white light on the front, and most safety officials interpret that as being a homogeneous white light and not the popular flashing lights. Another section of the vehicle code says flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles. Said Jim-the-California-Bicycle-Coalition-Man: "Flashing bike headlights are neither specifically authorized nor specifically prohibited under country law. I don't know, but I've never heard of a bicyclist having been cited for using a flashing bike light.

Source: San Jose Mercury News