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> Ok the rear red turn signal lights were already a trend in the US before Tesla. But please reverse this too. I'm surprised. But it shouldn't be up to Tesla;
by versteegen 24d ago
> Ok the rear red turn signal lights were already a trend in the US before Tesla. But please reverse this too.
I'm surprised. But it shouldn't be up to Tesla; it's illegal and they never get on the road in countries with proper regulations.
- bestouff 24d agoYou will never see those in the EU.
- Zanfa 24d agoI wish. Never used to really see any until recently. Looks like a brake light malfunction if you're not expecting it.
- bigfatkitten 24d agoAustralia generally follows EU for vehicle safety regs, and red turn signals were banned for new vehicles in 1973.
- Bimos 24d agoNever see this in China and didn't know it exists before.
- spockz 24d agoWe do see them here occasionally on US import cars. (NL) Tend to be older models like those long and wide models with benches in front and back and very loose suspension.
- ndsipa_pomu 23d agoHere in the UK, older cars are often exempt from various safety standards. Otherwise, recent imported vehicles have to comply with e.g. headlights dipping the wrong way which is common as we drive on the left.
- xtiansimon 24d ago> “…with proper regulations.” Enforcement, no? NY state has 30% tint law, but my Uber driver last night was more than that. I’ve heard tint being enforced with other violations, but i believe window tint analyzers are in short supply or costly, and they have to share. Which leads to longer roadside detainments. What makes them so difficult to test? https://dmv.ny.gov/inspections/tinted-windows https://dmv.ny.gov/inspections/tinted-windows
- Eddy_Viscosity2 24d ago[dead]
- OptionOfT 23d agoI'm surprised NY allows tinting of the whole front windshield. Here in AZ we're bound by the (stupid) AS-1 line. Tinting here would help more than in NY.
- xtiansimon 23d agoIt’s cultural; style over function—-unless the function is more traffic deaths (for which I have no numbers of traffic deaths involving tinted windows, I freely admit. I have had uncomfortable interactions with tinted cars on the streets and highways, so they have earned my permanent enmity). The trouble is both the cops and bully boys like tinted windows the same as acculturated Captain America and the Red Skull.
- OptionOfT 23d ago> I'm surprised. But it shouldn't be up to Tesla; it's illegal and they never get on the road in countries with proper regulations. The USA doesn't mandate red turn signals. They can be red or amber. Plenty of BMWs with amber turn signals. Although the current one has red turn signals. I'd say on modern cars it's less bad, the turn signal is usually a strip, and the brake light is larger, joined with a 3rd brake light. But on one of those old Ford vans, with incandescent red brake/turn signals with no/often broken 3rd light: you have to wait a second before you can determine if the person is braking / indicating.