Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean when a car is coming at me from a cross street, I want to be able to tell if they’re turning or just an asshole not using their signal. On some cars, the turn signal is mounted so far to the side that if they’re approaching from my right and turning right onto the same street as me, I can’t see that turn signal. Sometimes combined with the roundness of the nose exacerbating the problem.

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• SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think what he wants is the front turn signal to wrap around the front, so I can see the left signal from the right quarter.

  I’m not aware that this is not the case, but I don’t know that I would have noticed if it was not.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the case for pretty much everything? Newer cars alternate blinking their headlights and the signal indicator, and even cars w/ the turn signal on the side will have some light bleed through since it’s all one assembly. In the majority of cars, I can see their turn signals when they’re perpendicular to me. The larger issue is that most people in my area don’t bother to use their signals in the first place.

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    • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yea, that’s part of why I don’t know for sure if they make cars the way the guy at the top of this thread is describing.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Same. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car that can show me the signal on the opposite side of the car, but I have seen a lot of cars where I can see the indicator while stopped at an intersection and the car is perpendicular to me, since I have a little bit of angle to see the edge w/ the indicator.

        99% of the time, it’s not an issue, and the other 1% of the time it doesn’t really matter if I can see the indicator (I.e. they’re already halfway turning, so they’re angled away from me).

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i don’t think that was ever required in the US. it is elsewhere though.

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    • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can’t speak to “required.” But I know it used to be done.

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  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure most cars have a turn signal near the headlights, and one on the mirror or on the side for that use case, no?

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    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Actually I think I remember watching a technology connections video about how card in the US can use the headlights as a turn signal, or something like that.

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