sour

@sour@feddit.org

This is a remote user, information on this page may be incomplete. View at Source ↗

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Because this is what the discussion is about?

Personally I just want front turn signals to be visible from the opposite side again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
That doesn’t answer the question. The question is how you would design it so you can look at the left side of a car, know that it’s turning right and isn’t prone to misunderstandings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
How would that work? On the highway, a slight nudge on a straight means you’ll cross a lane, meaning turn signals on.

A kilometer later, the exact same slight nudge could mean it’s just a light turn in the road, meaning signals off.

Now you could mandate cameras in all vehicles, which analyze your driving and turn on the turn signals when it thinks you’re making a turn. Now who’s responsible in a false positive if someone else dodges you and crashes because you suddenly turned on the signals without turning? Except it wasn’t you, but your car. Oh and also you made entry level cars 10k more expensive, making them way more inaccessible if you aren’t rich.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not that easy I think (and you had by far the best idea in this thread now).

Can’t make them red or orange, they’d be just turn signals.

Can’t make them green, that wouldn’t work for color blind people, and since you actually need the color for understanding what signal you get (unlike traffic lights) you actually have to make it work

And arguably you can’t really make them white, because you can’t see a white blinking light inside a headlight and couldn’t differentiate it from the back light. Same with light blue.

Which leaves darker shades of blue, which are really hard to see in daylight.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely, but that doesn’t solve the problem that’s talked about here (seeing the turn signal from the other side of the vehicle). It might be clearer what the turn signal is, but if you look at the right side of a vehicle, you won’t be able to see the left headlight, even when it’s massive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
How would that work? If you look from the side you suddenly don’t see anything again, or an arrow point forwards or backwards?

If you look from the front, current turn signals work for that already.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Red is always on top (at least in Europe) so even color blind people know what the signal is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
How would you do that so it isn’t ugly as hell and isn’t prone to misunderstanding?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to apply Windows Update to all PC software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Just preinstall UnigetUI, call it Microsoft Store and be done with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android Auto will get Spotify Jam and support for video apps and web browsers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They by themselves collect a ton of data about your location and driving behavior
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android Auto will get Spotify Jam and support for video apps and web browsers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Android Auto doesn’t work by the car having android in it. It’s a connector that allows android phones to display the Android Auto UI on the cars infotainment.

Also, with modern cars, android is probably the least of your worries.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android Auto will get Spotify Jam and support for video apps and web browsers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It will likely be disabled during driving but it’s still a great thing. I got a big screen in my car, I was always annoyed that I couldn’t use it to watch YouTube videos when charging. This might help with that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds perfectly fine though
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Flying
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone give me money so I can find out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can get edible gold sheets for around 10 bucks. Goes to show how much those restaurant selling gold covered steak for thousands of dollars are a rip-off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s just how their past takeovers went. Like Symantec oder VMware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not as easy, as TSMC needs ASML hardware, which wouldn’t sell it to TSMC anymore because they also want to sell to US companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, but it would be an even bigger blow to TSMC if all US companies would stop buying from them. I’m pretty sure nvidia, AMD and Apple make a very sizable part of their customer base.