Apparently when motor cars first came out, they had to have someone walking in front with a red flag.
I'm sure in a few years, it will be really easy to get cheap LED lights that work.
Maybe this whole process has been filled with too many obstacles to sense and reason, and maybe the science is all just too difficult. It's also very likely that I'm going out of my way to make things complicated.
In the meantime, I have to take solace in Einstein's words.
"There are only two things that are infinite," he said, "the universe, and human stupidity."
Then he added: "And I'm not sure about the universe."