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The system you are talking about is called Opticom and it is made by 3M. It is a flashing light but at an astonishingly fast rate. Please don't quote me on this but IIRC it is something like 300 flashes a minute. You would have to be pretty good at flashing your lights to get it to work not to mention that I doubt halogen lights can cycle that fast.
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You are correct and it is illegal for any vehicle other than an emergency vehicle to be equipped with one. The fines for possessing them illegally are quite extensive, too. The light that does it is that strobe usually mounted on the bumper or integrated into the light bar.
With some of the older light systems, it was possible to get it to work with regular lights. There was a particular downtown light in Greensboro, NC that I had to run through every night on my way home from work. It was a notoriously looooong light but in the middle of the night, a few flicks of the high-beams was enough to trigger it. But that was years ago, too. Doubt you could make it work today.