Rainier
Your eyes acclimate to your surroundings and when your surroundings are bright car lights, several of them on each vehicle and street lights that bounce off of cars, further helping their visibility, it does make it tough to see a bicycle which is only illuminated by an itty bitty pin dot of a light. I too have taken several seconds to realize what the blinky light in the distance was. I think a steady light is better than a strobe but either way, a headlamp is not enough to be visible. And that is not for lack of attention of the driver. When I rode, I put both bright lights and eye-catching lights on the bike in hopes if one wasn’t noticed, maybe the other would be. I never could do a survey of the drivers around me though to know how effective that tactic was. I would have appreciated the input since my goal was to be seen. What is the resistance of some cyclists to using larger bright lights?