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sour@feddit.org 3 weeks agoHow would you do that so it isn’t ugly as hell and isn’t prone to misunderstanding?
Oneshot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
How would that work? If you look from the side you suddenly don’t see anything again, or an arrow point forwards or backwards?
If you look from the front, current turn signals work for that already.
Oneshot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
sliding lights: it depends on the bulb but i imagine it would easy to see move
arrows: i dont know why you think they would point fowards or backwards they would just towards the side youre on or not
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If you’re looking at the side of the car, you don’t see them the same way as from the front. Which this whole discussion is about.
If you can see both turn signals from your point of view, current design works well enough.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen newer cars turn the headlight off while the turn indicator is on, so you get a sort of double-blink effect.
I don’t see any reason why we can’t just have the whole headlight blink yellow as well with the turn indicator. LEDs are everywhere and can handle changing colors really easily, so it’s not hard to require that for all new cars.
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Absolutely, but that doesn’t solve the problem that’s talked about here (seeing the turn signal from the other side of the vehicle). It might be clearer what the turn signal is, but if you look at the right side of a vehicle, you won’t be able to see the left headlight, even when it’s massive.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
When am I ever looking at the side and needing to see the other side’s turn signal? The best I can think of is (using right side driving) a car turning right into my lane of travel as I’m going straight, but I’ll be a bit offset to the left and should be able to see the right headlight. If I can’t, that means the car is angled to the right, making it obvious that they’re turning.
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Because this is what the discussion is about?
Personally I just want front turn signals to be visible from the opposite side again.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen newer cars turn the headlight off while the turn indicator is on, so you get a sort of double-blink effect
Those are typically DRLs. Chrysler did this for a while in the 2000s-2010s (maybe still, idk), where the high beam - in DRL mode - turns off while the turn signal is doing it’s thing. Other manufacturers do this with dedicated DRLs, sometimes integrating the DRLs and turn signals into one multicolored unit (Kia Telluride, for example).
No manufacturer shuts off a headlight for a turn signal when the headlights are intentionally turned on (whether by light sensors at night, or by the driver).
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
< and > for turns. X for brakes.
Honestly, we should focus on functionality rather than aesthetic.
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That doesn’t answer the question. The question is how you would design it so you can look at the left side of a car, know that it’s turning right and isn’t prone to misunderstandings.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Up and down arrows? Up is away from you and down is towards you.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what about it is confusing? green = not coming at you so it’s okay to turn left (or whatever).
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
This wouldn’t really be helpful to those who are colorblind.
Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Somebody better tell stoplight designers
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Red is always on top (at least in Europe) so even color blind people know what the signal is.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
okay, pick a different color then. it’s a solvable problem.
sour@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It’s not that easy I think (and you had by far the best idea in this thread now).
Can’t make them red or orange, they’d be just turn signals.
Can’t make them green, that wouldn’t work for color blind people, and since you actually need the color for understanding what signal you get (unlike traffic lights) you actually have to make it work
And arguably you can’t really make them white, because you can’t see a white blinking light inside a headlight and couldn’t differentiate it from the back light. Same with light blue.
Which leaves darker shades of blue, which are really hard to see in daylight.