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Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack by cstross on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:40AM (#20845743)
"Should" is a word that ought to be banned from this sort of discussion.

It's illegal in this country—the UK—to drive at night without lights. Doesn't stop it happening, though. Either someone forgets to turn the lights on, if they're manually controlled, or they actively turn them off because the UI is ambiguous (this happened to me, once), or the filament bulb burns out (again: filament bulbs are/were mandatory in the UK, originally to rule out carbide lamps without actually banning them), or there's a wiring/software fault.

The point is, vehicle safety measures should be fail-safe, and driving an invisible vehicle at night and relying on lights to make yourself seen is kind of the opposite of that.

Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack by Marsymars on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:06PM (#20847126)
Following that, it's hard to argue that cars shouldn't come with mandatory reflective strips. (Which, of the top of my head, actually doesn't seem like a bad idea.)
Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack by whenchamenia on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:38PM (#20848929)
Most do. Every car and motorcycle I own has reflectors on all sides.
Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack by Marsymars on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:25PM (#20855022)
Do they? Every so often I come up on a vehicle at night with no lights on, and I've never noticed any notable reflectors, like say, runners wear at night for visibility.
Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack by blueprint on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:15AM (#20846749)
should. ought. ....