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Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

First of all, this would be illegal in many countries.

Second of all: we can differentiate cars by: has red lights, back.

If we lose this option we can no longer differentiate easily if there is a car coming towards us or driving away from us.

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CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They tested using a green light for the front brake light, not a red one

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- gjoel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It is to colorblind people. You could use something else of course, just saying…
  
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  - dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.
    
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    FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    A lot of colorblind people can tell the difference between red-green and white.
    
    They just percieve red-green as the same.
    
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    TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.
    
    Tail lights being red is fine if you live with the most common forms of colorblindness which fall into what we call “red-green colorblind.” It is still a different color than headlights.
    
    Now put those same red-green lights on the front, and we have a problem.
    
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- FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Flashing blue would be neat.
  
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