Danny Sauer wrote:
>>
>>I don't necessarily see it as a "good idea" - but it is the sort of thing
>>that salesmen will want as a marketing gimmick.
>>
> 
> "Olde Tyme Lites(R), hearkening back to a simpler time - a time when
> the car in front of you had already been braking for several hundred
> milliseconds before you noticed that their one remaining brake light
> was lit. Now! With Simulated Random Incandescent Failure Mode(TM)!
> SRIFM(TM) is guranteed to keep those tailgaters on their toes, and
> provide endless entertainment on crowded city streets! Buy Olde Tyme
> Lites(R) with SRIFM(TM) technology today!

Get in on the ground floor now.  Be prepared to develop and market 
incandescent lamps to a future market that has converted to LEDs.

"Recapture that warm feeling formerly only associated with vacuum tube 
amplifiers. Don't let them make YOU use those harsh, cold semiconductors!"

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