Blinking C7 tail lights
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Racer
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Blinking C7 tail lights
This may have been covered in another post, but what is the deal with the blinking C7 tail lights? I think this looks so stupid, and it almost looks like you are driving around with an electrical short in tail lights or something similar..
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Be careful of the use of the word stupid in this scenario...
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The LEDs use Pulse Width Modulation to control brightness. So, they are actually turning on and off very rapidly. The human eye can't see this. However, a video camera captures some frames with the light on and some frames with the light off. Thus, in a video they will look like they are "blinking".
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Or... the other cars may not employ PWM at all and use a different method to control the brightness of the LEDs...
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