Here’s an idea. How about we zap the drivers after they make a turn if they didn’t use a turn signal beforehand? 😀

I mean when a car is coming at me from a cross street, I want to be able to tell if they’re turning or just an asshole not using their signal. On some cars, the turn signal is mounted so far to the side that if they’re approaching from my right and turning right onto the same street as me, I can’t see that turn signal. Sometimes combined with the roundness of the nose exacerbating the problem.

I think what he wants is the front turn signal to wrap around the front, so I can see the left signal from the right quarter.

I’m not aware that this is not the case, but I don’t know that I would have noticed if it was not.

Heads up, it’s actually keyboard and chair, not keyboard and computer

I’ve always heard it as “PICNIC”

Problem In Chair, Not In Computer

I’ve actually always found it weird with all the automation vehicles have, that blinkers aren’t linked to the wheel. it already automatically disengages when turning, it shouldn’t be too hard to have it auto engage as well when turning

How would you do that so it isn’t ugly as hell

same way we do with lights now, design them attractively. It is not always successful and that’s on the manufacturers.

and isn’t prone to misunderstanding?

what about it is confusing? green = not coming at you so it’s okay to turn left (or whatever).

sliding light or arrows

I’ve seen newer cars turn the headlight off while the turn indicator is on, so you get a sort of double-blink effect.

I don’t see any reason why we can’t just have the whole headlight blink yellow as well with the turn indicator. LEDs are everywhere and can handle changing colors really easily, so it’s not hard to require that for all new cars.

< and > for turns. X for brakes.

Honestly, we should focus on functionality rather than aesthetic.

Because the designers and marketers were given priority over the safety engineers.

Yeah, no.

Those things are death traps and there’s a reason why they’re mostly prevalent in nations where people literally can’t afford anything safer.

I live in Maine. Riding a motorcycle in the winter is not only highly unpleasant, it’s borderline suicidal.

I’m all for 2 wheeled transport where it works, but anywhere that gets snow for months out of each year it’s a non starter as a primary transportation mode

This might be the dumbest comment I have ever read on the Internet. That’s like 30 years of comments.

Good luck transporting a couch on a motorbike.

You would think killing off the stupid would improve the breed. But apparently the real world shows it does not. Besides, I ain’t riding a motorbike at -40 Celsius or Fahrenheit or in 30cm/12" of fresh snow or in a thunderstorm.

That’s why I bought mine!

Because it wasn’t blindingly obvious? I don’t know how tall the truck in front of me is, and since I don’t drive tall vehicles I know even less about the heights of bridges. Usually commercial drivers are the better ones.

If we limited drivers permits to the 8% or so of drivers who are actually competent we’d solve a lot of problems in several domains.

I self-selected as ineligible to drive years ago, and I’ve never regretted it. Of course I had to move away from my home country and learn a new language, but those are the shakes.

Reading all such things I’m starting to think “what if I can drive?” I’ve always thought I can’t, but since everyone around who thinks they can drive like suicide bombers, maybe I should find those driving lessons.

Define safe? If everyone drives safely enough that you are more likely to die of suicide than an automobile accident, is that safe enough?

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.

The 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.

So risking everyone else’s life around you is worth it?

The hazards also override your turn signals so I now have no idea when you are going to attempt lane change.

Thats more an issue of using the same lamp for rear lights and turn signal

it’s forbidden to use rear fog lights under rain (it’s more confusing than helpful)

if you live somewhere dry, that’s not a concern. But here it rains 1 day in 3

Yes that as well, I love mine and use them a lot. But that’s a step above rear running lights. There’s no god damn reasons the rear indicators shouldn’t be on all the time.

I strongly doubt it was genuinely linked to that. There are EU countries where having lights on all the time is mandatory.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

I suspect because there’s no consistency in the brightness of vehicle lights. But that’s one of the reasons why I think an incremental light bar would be better, there’s no variation between vehicles. You could even make it more informative by flashing the whole bar when you first brake, so someone behind you can more easily see how much of the bar is being lit up.

If Japan introduced that they never caught on, unless it’s specific to an area or model of car.

probably because thats a terrible way to do it. It would be noticeable if a car started braking and then started braking much harder, but if they slam on the brakes you don’t see anything change, just a normal brake light.

I suspect a lot of that has to do with the entitled way people are driving these days. If you leave a car length gap, some kid will wrecklessly attempt to cram their way in because your lane momentarily moved slightly faster.

There’s this idea I’ve been considering for a long time.

Imagine putting a remote controlled firework smoke bomb under the tailpipe, hidden from sight. At best a really stinky one that smells like burned rubber or something.

When someone follows to closely, just fake an engine issue or something by activating the smoke bomb and fill their AC air intake with the smell of burned rubber for weeks. Just to teach them to not follow too closely again.

That could probably be implemented in most existing vehicles, and at least it would provide more information.

I think some cars also turn on the hazards automatically if you really hammer the breaks.

The EU has approved G-triggered brake lights that do just that, flash rapidly on hard braking. I’ve only seen it on higher end cars so far, but they absolutely exist. Unfortunately in the US people stick brake flashers that blink in patterns every time they touch the brake. Mostly useless as they’re installed to be “look at me, aren’t I cool with my blinky brake lights?” rather than any additional safety.

Does your state not require good lights on the trailers? I just built a new trailer last year, I was required to have full working brake and turn signals along with running lights, but I went the extra step and included more brake/turn lights on the front and rear of the fenders, along with reverse lights plus four marker lights along each side. Trailers are hard enough to see, I didn’t want to make it harder for anyone by just sticking with the bare minimum.

Turn signals can be either red or amber in the US.

Every car needs proximity chat so traffic becomes like a COD lobby.

Road rage 5000 initiate