Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/424410
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:21 zuletzt editiert von‘Here’s an idea: let all those around you know your status.’
‘Revolutionary!’
It’s weird we haven’t already done this, but good.
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In the US, it seems supporting policies that make the elderly retake the driving exam is complete political suicide. There is a good reason for it and it would keep people safe, but there's no chance of it happening while the population that mostly votes is old.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:29 zuletzt editiert vonIm not sure how true that is, at least FL requires you to renew your license more frequently as you get older. Idk if its just a vision test though.
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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.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:33 zuletzt editiert vonsliding lights: it depends on the bulb but i imagine it would easy to see move
arrows: i dont know why you think they would point fowards or backwards they would just towards the side youre on or not
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I think only brake lights are required I've never seen turn signals on them. I suspect the ones I've seen with those aftermarket ones drive those trailers on other states with more strict requirements
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:38 zuletzt editiert vonWow that's got to be almost worthless. As you say, it just takes some idiot with a load obscuring the vehicle lights and suddenly nobody behind them knows what's going on. What's next, are we going to make tail lights optional?
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If you want that, just light up the first and last LED always.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:39 zuletzt editiert vonThat's a good point, although flashing does help to grab attention, but it can also be annoying when the person is driving with their foot on the brake pedal.
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Im not sure how true that is, at least FL requires you to renew your license more frequently as you get older. Idk if its just a vision test though.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 00:58 zuletzt editiert von manomorphos@lemmy.world 6. Juli 2025, 03:07I may be biased from seeing what I see in my state, lol. Families have to beg them to stop driving after they crash into a building, no political will exists to change things. There's more states than I thought that require additional driving exams, at least in certain circumstances.
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BMW has implemented this in the US market for the past 20 years or so at least. Under heavy braking, additional brake lights turn on. I believe they call that Brake Force Display. I’m sure they’re not the only manufacturer to do this, too
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:06 zuletzt editiert von ataridump@lemmy.world 6. Juli 2025, 03:07BMW should focus on making the turn signals work first.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/424410
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:07 zuletzt editiert vonDefinitely make it easier for people on crosswalks to start walking. Knowing that they are slowing down.
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I see too many people treat a roundabout like a stop sign when it is clearly empty.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:27 zuletzt editiert vonThe couple of times they tried out roundabouts in my area, they didn't last long because people were too stupid to figure out how to use them. So instead they just bitched until they were taken out.
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Red is always on top (at least in Europe) so even color blind people know what the signal is.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:45 zuletzt editiert vonSame here in the US, though I’ll say as someone actually colorblind, it’s not the easiest to decipher the red/yellow when at speed until you’re somewhat close. Normally not an issue since anything resembling red=start slowing down, but there are situations where a standard light may start acting as a single flashing red or yellow, and that can be tough to figure out at speed. Flashing reds are supposed to have stops signs here as far as I know, but there’s been at least one intersection that hasn’t had them, which certainly gives me some anxiety about taking that as a rule. The system works alright enough, but it’s definitely frustrating that we settled on red/green for things when that’s the most common color blindness. I have some strong opinions on bathroom indicators, particularly in airport bathrooms where the lighting is often sub par too
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Once we have proper self driving cars none of these recent "innovations" like that or the speed limiting would matter.
Ideally self driving cars would also be without a steering wheel and just be half width with a single seat or two seats facing each other to reduce energy requirements. You could just develop this with a manhattan style project and test it in a single city banning all other private cars except delivery vehicles.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:49 zuletzt editiert vonProper self-driving cars? Do you mean a bus?
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Maybe redo the driving test like... At least every 20 years? There are people on the roads who got their licenses when their town didn't even had traffic lights. People who never saw a roundabout in their first 20 years of driving.
Its nice that we restrict young people by making them take more and more driving lessons and paying more for tiered licences, like we do in Europe for motorcycles and trucks.
But maybe also take a look at the 70+ year old grandpa who had two strokes and one heart attack, has two pairs of of glasses but his license says that he's perfectly fit.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 01:58 zuletzt editiert vonSure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.
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I retract my statement, this looks perfectly safe and effective.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 02:15 zuletzt editiert vonPutting fewer people in danger than the pavement princess speeding though a yellow light.
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Yes.. WHY DO CARS STILL HAVE 2 SETTINGS LIKE ITS 1935. it would take basically zero effort to have low, high, stun for headlights so the rest of us who drive normal appropriate cars don't have to be blinded by selfish assholes driving a massive truck alone by themselves that they never used for work once in their lives. Yes, im a car person and despise truck posers.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 02:21 zuletzt editiert vonYou say this like those same people won't leave it on stun
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People don't even need car tbh. Motorbikes everywhere please. Zip zip, less traffic, everyone pays attention to road or falls and dies.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 03:21 zuletzt editiert vonThis might be the dumbest comment I have ever read on the Internet. That’s like 30 years of comments.
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‘Here’s an idea: let all those around you know your status.’
‘Revolutionary!’
It’s weird we haven’t already done this, but good.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 03:41 zuletzt editiert vonMy status is in a relationship
Don't get any ideas buddy
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I have to contend with 70-80 year olds doing 30km in an 80 while swerving across the midline because they saw a bird across the street.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 06:29 zuletzt editiert vonYeah, like if someone crashes their car due their own stupidity, I'm not stopping to help. Darwin Awards and all that.
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sliding lights: it depends on the bulb but i imagine it would easy to see move
arrows: i dont know why you think they would point fowards or backwards they would just towards the side youre on or not
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 07:07 zuletzt editiert vonIf you're looking at the side of the car, you don't see them the same way as from the front. Which this whole discussion is about.
If you can see both turn signals from your point of view, current design works well enough.
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Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 07:53 zuletzt editiert vonWhy not move to a place where low mobility doesn't cut you off from the rest of society?
There's plenty of retirement communities where you can get around with a golf cart. In the 3 biggest cities here in SK, old folk can ride the subways for free, and sometimes you even see them drive mobility scooters on.
Other places I've been have level boarding for buses, but I've never seen someone drive a mobility scooter onto one. Certainly it wouldn't fly in SK.
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Sure but the second I lose my mobility I will put a deer slug through my head.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 08:25 zuletzt editiert vonSo risking everyone else's life around you is worth it?
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