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Many rear car LED lights flicker because their full brightness is used as brake lights, and they are dimmed via pulse width modulation for normal lighting. This is simply a bit cheaper, which is ridiculous on an expensive car.

I don't actually see the flicker normally, but when they quickly move accross my visual field I sometimes see a line of dots from the flicker.



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