Advise on Super bright daytime running lights please ?

[PaulSB]

Buy a set of Trace lights from Exposure. You don't need to look anywhere else.

 

[mjr]

First buy safety vest with wide reflective bands found at home improvement stores. Next buy a set of wide reflective leg bands, the best ones I've found is from Leg Shield, you get 4 bands for $17 and they are extremely bright. The leg band is highly important for older drivers because for some reason they can't see just a static reflector like the vest, but the up and down motion of the leg bands slaps their eyes better. England does require reflectors, including pedal amber on both sides and a red rear reflector, I'm not sure if the leg bands would replace that requirement for the pedals, but the leg bands are superior to pedal or shoe reflectors so I would use those primarily. There are also tires made with a reflective band on the sidewall.

I think drivers see reflective vests, but don't recognise them as a human moving along the road at 15ish mph, seeing instead a static road sign or near-static roadmender or bin collector.

Leg bands are a much more effective tactic, but don't replace the legal requirement for pedal reflectors. Reflective tyre stripes are very effective from the sides. Helmet lights are bad ideas two ways: they dazzle whoever you look at, and you don't want a light to be the last thing to go through your mind in a crash. There's good reasons several helmet makers say not to attach things to them!