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Leave it to brits to install right indicator on the left side
Don’t blame us, Mini has been owned by BMW for decades.
Good thing we stopped them in WW2. That flag in the indicator would have been even more confusing.
I think you’re confused on who stopped them. Here’s a hint, it was America and Russia. Personally I agree with Patton however, we shouldn’t have stopped in Berlin. Oh well.
*Shows up late, almost in the wrong jersey*
*Team is finally whole, barely wins because of enemy blunder*
”Look at us win this for the
team!”
And it’s also red. I hate red turning indicators, they should be amber.
They are required to be in other countries. At some point we decided red was ok and there’s so many problems with that!
Can you explain because I’m 46 years old and have driven plenty and can’t recall a single time I’ve ever been confused by a turn signal.
This video is better at it than I could be. But I’m short: ambiguity in driving is bad.
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Amer is harder to notice
Amber has been scientifically proven to be easier to notice, and mildly safer than using the same bulb as the brake light to indicate a turn.
Here’s a paper on it. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/811115
This paper contains data relating to the effectiveness of amber turn signals by comparing striking and struck cars with the same configuration (amber or red), and the odds of not getting struck with an amber turn signal equipped vehicle is always about 4-8% better than otherwise.
not for me i really do have a harder time notices amber
Unless you have some kind of color blindness, orange is among the most noticeable colors to the human eyes, especially in an urban background
I expect you also think Fahrenheit is more intuitive
Fahrenheit isn’t too bad IMO. It’s more granular so it’s usually sufficient to use whole numbers for everything. 0F to 100F is a temperature range a person might be subjected to in day-to-day life, with 0F being pretty cold and 100F being pretty hot.
I never undertand the more granular, the scale is in 180 because that’s the most precision they could use to manufacture scientific thermometers, nowadays it’s completely irrelevant. Celsius thermometers have a granularity of 0.1°C and that is useful soley when you want to differentiate between “almost a slight fever” and “maybe a slight fever”. Do you find yourself needing to differentiate between 45 °F and 46 °F?
It’s supposed to represent the union jack. I understand how it could be frustrating though.
Maybe put the whole flag on each indicator then.
I just like to tell the Americans that this is your fault. You have lacks traffic laws that allow this kind of thing. This isn’t be legal in the UK.
Lax* but yes they also lack them too
I don’t get it… What’s wrong with it?
The turn signal to turn left looks like an arrow pointing to the right.
The bigger issue is that the US still alows Blinkers to be the same color as break lights. Just weird to me.
Actually, Us law/regulations require them to be amber or yellow.
But like with super-bright headlamps; manufacturers decided to ignore it because USDoT is pretty useless in that regard.
That’s not correct. FMVSS 108, Table I-a, specifically allows rear turn signals to be amber or red. Front turn signals must be amber only.
Multiple wrong. The brake light double as a turn signal, the signal colour itself being red, and the arrow pointing at different direction.
In a saner world, signal and brake light will always be separated and must be the colour of amber.
But that’s just a US issue, right? Most other countries already require amber signal lights.
North America, actually
So you mean Canada has the same issue?
Yeah, possibly also Mexico but I can’t quite recall
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I think, if you put them together, it’s supposed to be a Union Jack?
Hence the form in “form over function”
Oh god, which way is it actually turning?
Right, I didn’t even realise what the problem was supposed to be. But it’s still a bit of a shit indicator.
I actually think it’s left. The blinking light is on the side turned into, even if it just happens to be shaped like an arrow pointing right.
I’m just looking at the thumbnail, is it reversed in the video? The indicator is on the right side of the car in that picture. You’re right, it’s shaped like an arrow, which I can’t believe was missed during development.
The right light is just solidly on (because of breaking), the left one is blinking.
I see, yes it’s a shit design.
How do we know this isn’t just someone on the brake where one bulb has blown?
Means how the top center brake light is also lit up, I think you’re right.
I think you two are too European to understand this.
The US and Canada allows blinking a brake light to act as a turn signal. It’s absolutely stupid, I know.
Parson what? How does this work? How do you k ow which way they are turning?
If the light is positioned on the left of the vehicle and is blinking, they are turning left. Vice versa for right.
If you want to check whether they are signaling or tapping their brakes, look at the CHMSL. Yes, it’s stupid. Bad regulations allow for this, and this is cheaper for manufacturers, so they will do it.
