Jan 15 2006
Ideal brakelight design
European automobile design mostly designs separate brake and tail light. Maybe European tend to notice distinguished brake and tail light. Expensive model gives more powerful and noticeable brake light. While the cheaper one does not give noticeable differences.
Japanese model usually integrate them but gives more powerful brake light to notice. It looks like that Asian are more notice to powerful light instead of separate light. Since there are no separation, it has large area of tail and brake light.
American model integrates all back light, from tail, brake, and sign. You can see the example on Opel/Chevy Blazer model. The back light only consist of 3 bulbs of red, and 1 bulb of white. The 3 red bulbs serve as tail, brake, and sign. The white bulb serve as reverse light.
I really like separate, large, and powerful brake light. I like the separation on European model. I like the large and powerful one on Japanese. While I admire the noticeable back light on American. But I do not like the integration of sign light, because it gives you false warning of red sign instead of yellow one.
There is one Japanese model that suits my back light preference. It is Suzuki Baleno. Baleno is a Japanese model designed to enter European market. So it has some European characteristic (separate brake light) and the usual Japanese characteristic. Baleno has 3 rows of back light. First row is sign light. Second row serves as brake light. Third row serves as reverse light.
Baleno’s brake light is designed with 3 column. The outer column (1 & 3) consist bulbs. While the middle column consist of reflector to sign the automobile existence when parked in the dark. The outermost column (1st column on left side, 3rd column on right side) serves as tail light with double bulb. The inner column (3rd column on left side, 1st column on right side) only lights when brake applied along with more noticeable tail light.
Driving in the night, you see Baleno’s maximum width noticed on its tail light. When brake applied, you see maximum power of reddish light coming from two columns of back light. It really helps you when travels long distance in high speed. You can response quickly to front Baleno’s brake. It was based on my experience in tailing Baleno on Cikampek highway in 80-90 kmh.
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