While driving in New Delhi most of the time you have to observe Brake Lights of the car you are following. There are Euro 4 norms on the roads today, but since decades there had been no improvements on Brake Lights. It is still a flip-flop indicator, like how it was in Ambassador of 1970s. If you apply brakes, the brake light will glow, and if you release it, it will stop glowing.
All you need is an extra skill of observation and reflexes. The skill is to judge the deceleration of the car applying brakes, and then send the signal to your reflexes so that you don't push your car into the front or another buddy following you doesn't bump his engine in your trunk. What a skill to master!
I see that breaking is not a flip-flop mechanism, there is a force attached to it. One applies brake with less/medium/hard force. But the output of this mechanism, the brake light doesn't talk about the magnitude.
Instead I would like car manufacturers to develop a Brake Light which should act as a "level meter". It can have about 10 distinct group of LEDs of Red lights (as shown in pic). These groups will be illuminated centre out, and more lights will be lit based on the strength of braking. For emergency braking, another indicator can be placed, and would be activated to warn drivers behind that emergency braking is taking place ahead of them.
This could minimize the possibilities of collisions! And is not a tough task to engineer and implement in today's world.
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