Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense

Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From the article

  The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards regulate taillight design, mandating minimum area, placement, quantity, and visibility according to vehicle category, dimensions, and weight. However, the FMVSS does not appear to prohibit deactivating taillights during braking, so the Cybertruck’s taillights as seen here seem to be legal—even if they are perplexing, and potentially dangerous.

  I still can barely believe this thing is real, and not something out of a bad 90s movie where video game characters come into the real world.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was more meaning in a wider sense. A car manufacturer who can’t sell their cars outside the US is shooting themselves in the foot.

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t that kinda his specialty these days?

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    • Player2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They usually have separate models, a standard one for the whole world and a cut down version to save cost for the US

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not “common” at all for US cars to have a lesser model. I can think of 1 popular midweek off the top of my head.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can. Look at that weird VR thing Facebook tried. No one says no to these people the result is they just go with any sci-fi movie they liked.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As with most laws, first someone has to do something really stupid for others to say “we should probably write this down in the rule book and not allow others to do this.”

  Elon and his designers are basically doing things that other car designers aren’t dumb enough to do.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But there are countries all around the world. You can find yourself a loophole in one country but then you can’t sell your car in all the countries that loophole doesn’t exist

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let me introduce you to Elon musk…

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But they’ve been doing the same dumb shit with brake and turn signals for decades and no one has done anything about it. They’ll have one set for Europe to comply with local regulations and then design and engineer a whole other set for the US just to have the wrong colors.

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes they need to be separate lights and yellow here in NZ. We mostly follow japan’s car safety rules so probably the same in many countries

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yellow? Brake lights are red, reversing lights white (which could be considered yellow).

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of the world mandates 3 colors in rear — red for brakes, amber for turn, white for reverse. You’re correct about that, OP was talking about the turn signals.

      In the US the turn signals can/must be red (depends on state) and can even be the same light.

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah that got me very confused. The post is specifically about the brake lights, and they didn’t specify they were talking about something else. It’s not hard to confuse me, though.

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and turn indicators are yellow/orange

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sorry, brake red, indicators yellow. In the US a lot of the indicators are red too.

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