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It is an interesting question. One I'm working on. Lights can look great up close to the bike but do they catch the eye of a motorist?
http://www.cpfgreen.com/vb/showpost.php?p=6872&postcount=137
This post's video and discussion are of a bike with over 800 lumens (at half power) of headlights on and three Planet Bike Superstealths in the mid to late afternoon riding east away from the sun and back directly into it. I was underwhelmed.
Tonight I videotaped the same rig under street lights and on a rural unlit road car lights off or on. At half power, the headlights look better to me riding than my cars powerful halogens. Those videos will be edited and posted tomorrow. If I can, I am repeating the video in the above link with minor changes like making ABSOLUTELY sure the lights were on (that poor a performance has me wondering). I will also aim the Superstealths for the camera and we will see. Different sun angle, that sort of thing. It may be I had the only sun angle that washes them out and we benefit from daytime running lights under any other lighting situation.
I have run an HID with 600 lumens and these new headlights at both 800 and 1600 lumens in daylight and there ARE being seen as daytime running lights. It is harder to blind drivers with glare in the day. There are some who have expressed the idea that more is not enough in a daytime bike light because of all the other visual clutter vying for drivers' attention. So the Amoeba's may be the ticket, but too wide for night street use. That is the reason for the videos. I thought it would be obvious. I thought it would be a simpler project. I thought wrongly.
As to the Planet Bike Superstealth: there is a thread here about them (use Google box at top of page). I have three newer ones with no dependability issues. Their relatively narrow beam may not be enough in traffic with drivers' eyes as low as they are in sport cars and as high as they are in cabs of semi trailer trucks in the daytime. (Video will tell.)
Princeton Tec Swerve: fantastically obnoxious flash mode but both of mine had switch issues, the first replaced under warranty, and its replacement is slowly succumbing on the errand bike. Maybe they fixed that.
I have no experience with the others you listed. I am beginning to think a 'scorched earth' policy in daytime lights may apply to taillights too. Something like Krtonik's red devil or the high powered Dinotte tailight.
I had not thought of googling (dumb) this concept under different words to see whether there are pictures or videos of daytime bike lights already. I will work on my videos and you can help yourself (and me) by seeing if anyone has done this sort of thing and posted here before.
