Sometimes I just sit down and think about myself. I put my judgments into judgment. Its sometimes hard to be told your wrong, but even harder admitting the truth of it. I am fallible like anyone else that ever lived. I have been wrong million if not trillions of times. Today while driving home in the dark I wondered. How much of a effect does the time of day have to do with traffic?
Before tonight I would think that traffic was purely made by people who hit their brakes all the time. Now this is not my full theory but I part of it. Now I beginning to think there is alot more to it. I thought well how about the visibility of the red tail light. There is three main states of atmospheric lighting: Night, Day, and half way in between (this of course is a generalization for space sake.) How could these three different states change the visibility of a red tail light while a car is braking? Before rationalizing I would think of course night must be the worse because It is very dark and a red light would shine brightest in the dark. That is not at all wrong, but if you notice when you lights are turned on you tail lights are already red and just get a extra boost while braking.
During the day can be the worst so I moved on to the reasons why dawn or dusk could be the worst. I found out that there is a very good reasons why this is the worse time of time of brake light visibility. First off there are car with there lights off still and the visibility is not gone from seeing these cars, but upon braking there light peer through the spatial perspective and give a huge contrast between not braking and braking. This is the highest contrast you will get all day long. People are attracted to things with high contrast, for example people are fascinated with eyes why, because the eye has a dark pupil and right above it is a highlight on the glossy surface of the membrane. So people would be more attracted to these red lights then th regular lights making them more noticeable to a wider range of people. Another reason why it is a bad part of the day for traffic is because of ambiguity. Some people have their lights on and some have them off. This does not cause huge confusion but I can see how calculating the depth perception between two different car one with lights on one with them off might cause a little. This may lead some one to come up too quickly on another car forcing them to use their brakes. Thus cause the chain reaction of brake lights we see today.
Now when coming across these deduction I was not trying to make another excuse why there is traffic during dusk and dawn but to find possible reasons there might of been traffic at the time I was driving down the freeway, which was 8 pm. It was dark and I was hoping there was no traffic. My line of deduction did not go
rush hour traffic at dawn/dusk > Why is dawn/dusk a bad time for driving.
It went.
Whats a possibility of random traffic at night > the variables, pros cons > in contrast to other times > dusk/dawn worst time for traffic > possible varible for rush hour traffic.
So there was no bias against my result. I find it funny that my finding came out in that direction because I knew there was traffic at those times of the day, but never attributed any cause to the lighting of the time.
