Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The combined indicator/brake light thing you guys do is fucking stupid, so there’s a precedent.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Agreed. Are they turning, or just braking periodically with a taillight out? Who knows!

    I also love the front turn signals that turn off that headlight. Dumb as hell for everyone.

    Also, animated signals should be banned. On or off, no flashing, glowing, or sliding.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t even get me started on the wild and wonderful design ‘features’ on modern cars. Fucking hell, they want you to do *anything *but drive the thing and pay attention to the road.

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  • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve always hated that. I feel like I’m seeing it less and less on newer vehicles, though, so maybe manufacturers are also realizing that it’s stupid as hell.

    Or maybe it’s just not worth the cost to have two different but mostly identical versions of a very expensive and highly integrated modern taillight housing for different markets.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I hope so. I dug up this old video I watched ages ago that articulates really well why they’re a bad idea.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Clearly it’s your fault for both breaking and going around a corner at the same time. Who does that?

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you edit that to ‘braking’, and I’ll delete this comment, please? It’s breaking my brain. :)

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      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s too late, he already broke his car while going around the corner.

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• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’ll likely give those front brake lights an amber color

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s possible. Red really is only supposed to be on the back to indicate the rear of the vehicle.

    It’s why on stretches of road where passing in oncoming lanes is legal, they tell you to turn on your headlights. Its so that there is a distinguishing feature between the front and rear of the car.

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The reason why I made my comment is because in the US some car manufacturers use the rear brake lights for the indicator lights too. Which is just stupid and dangerous and thankfully illegal in Europe.

      It would be really stupid to have amber brake lights in the front. And given US car manufacturers track record, they’d be so stupid to repurpose the front indicator lights as front brake lights to cut costs.

      Make it blue or green or any other color, but not amber or white.
      The amber color should only be used for the indicator lights, and should be amber on the front, side and back of the car.

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