Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Ok call me crazy but wouldn’t the requirements be written in law? I’d expect in many countries it simply wouldn’t be able to be sold.
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.
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
Let me introduce you to Elon musk…
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.
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
Yellow? Brake lights are red, reversing lights white (which could be considered yellow).
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.
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.
and turn indicators are yellow/orange
Sorry, brake red, indicators yellow. In the US a lot of the indicators are red too.
jve@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From the article
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.
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months 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.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Isn’t that kinda his specialty these days?
Player2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
They usually have separate models, a standard one for the whole world and a cut down version to save cost for the US
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months 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.