Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
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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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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, 08:37 zuletzt editiert vonThere are now headlights that can be "high" but block out portions of the beam directed at light sources like oncoming headlights. Can't have them in the US though.
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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, 08:41 zuletzt editiert vonHere in France they drive at 70km/h in a 90km/h road. They also drive at 70 in a 70 road. And 70 in a 50 road. And 70 in a 30 road...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/424410
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 08:42 zuletzt editiert vonAs a pedestrian this would be huge and make me feel so much safer.
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If 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.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 12:17 zuletzt editiert voni found a video to help you picture it better (https://youtube.com/shorts/ZD_34DxW_uI )
it really isnt that difficult
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i found a video to help you picture it better (https://youtube.com/shorts/ZD_34DxW_uI)
it really isnt that difficult
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 12:34 zuletzt editiert von sour@feddit.org 6. Juli 2025, 14:35I know how flow lights work. But they still don't help you see better that a car is turning away from you, which is what this discussion is about.
Imagine a crossroad where a car is coming from your right side. You have no way of knowing whether they turn right or go straight, regardless of the way the lights work, because you won't see them.
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Wouldn’t better driving education and testing work just as well, if not better?
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 13:05 zuletzt editiert vonas with a lot of tests, the thing a driving test is the best at measuring is how well you can take a driving test.
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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, 13:46 zuletzt editiert vonAnother kind of solution. But not needed.
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Why 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.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 13:58 zuletzt editiert vonI don't think I could afford to be homeless in SK.
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So risking everyone else's life around you is worth it?
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 13:59 zuletzt editiert vonIt isn't a negociation. If some bureaucrat ticks that box, it will just be the end.
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My status is in a relationship
Don't get any ideas buddy
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 14:05 zuletzt editiert vonHow do I set my car's status to "It's complicated"?
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Definitely make it easier for people on crosswalks to start walking. Knowing that they are slowing down.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 14:09 zuletzt editiert vonIn order to be most effective it would need to be dynamic rather than a fixed on/off like rear brake lights. Stopping doesn't mean stopped. So perhaps a progressive light bar that starts lighting up at 20mph and adds a light for each 5mph drop until the whole bar is lit indicating a full stop. That would give pedestrians a sense of rate of deceleration.
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I was curious if anyone had actually tested it or not, and I found the video above where they get right into it, without any intros or family history or begging to like & subscribe... just a short video where they test it and find that, YES!, the brake lights do come on when you use the steering wheel paddle brake or when you're in L gear and take your foot off the accelerator.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 14:19 zuletzt editiert von sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6. Juli 2025, 16:22Here's the technology connections test/analysis from 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ
The claim is we need more comprehensive regulation for brake/slow down lights.
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The brakes aren’t engaged? The light turns on before there’s pressure on the brake. They probably don’t even know their lights are on since they aren’t decelerating.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 14:35 zuletzt editiert von sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6. Juli 2025, 16:40They might need to check their assumptions. It might not feel like the brake is engaged but it's an expensive habit that causes unnecessary wear and tear. https://drivingmecrazyblog.com/2020/02/07/quit-riding-your-brakes/
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They might need to check their assumptions. It might not feel like the brake is engaged but it's an expensive habit that causes unnecessary wear and tear. https://drivingmecrazyblog.com/2020/02/07/quit-riding-your-brakes/
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 14:49 zuletzt editiert von schmidtgenetics@lemmy.world 6. Juli 2025, 16:51It’s not engaged dude, the brake has play it in, and the brakes don’t engage the second you start depressing it. But the light is on. Called brake shadowing, do people not take driver training any more? Because maybe they would stop assuming brake light means brakes are engaged and they are riding them.
Quit reading blogs without understanding the basic premise of how brakes work first.
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I don't think I could afford to be homeless in SK.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 15:54 zuletzt editiert vonNo, being in poverty is really bad here, but I just picked SK out as a close example, old folk becoming recluses who only interact with Fox News and people serving them is pretty specific to American and/or car-centric culture. Hell even car-centric parts of america have retirement communities where they all drive scooters or golf cars.
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I know how flow lights work. But they still don't help you see better that a car is turning away from you, which is what this discussion is about.
Imagine a crossroad where a car is coming from your right side. You have no way of knowing whether they turn right or go straight, regardless of the way the lights work, because you won't see them.
schrieb am 7. Juni 2025, 16:14 zuletzt editiert vonwe can put the lights on the bottom of the mirror so you can see from that angle then
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