Brake Lights

[Borderboy]

I have a Vitara 1.4 SZ5 All Grip 5 door Auto
The other day a driver cut in front of me very closely. I was in adaptive cruise control so the anti collision activated the brakes to avoid a collision. The driver behind me was tailgating and I was wondering if he got a brake light warning from my car or do the rear brake lights only activate if I physically depress the brake pedal.

[ScottieJ]

You should have stopped to ask the driver behind

I would imagine they do, it wouldn’t be a very good safety system if they didn’t and I’m sure of the guy behind was tailgating and they didn’t then he probably wouldn’t have reacted quickly enough.

[Borderboy]

That was my assumption but wondered if there was a definitive answer