Comment on Form over function, eh?

• Clasm@ttrpg.network ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you seen the idiots out on the road these days?

  However, as far as turn signals go, this is one of the less egregious designs. Car manufacturers are given too much leeway in what is allowed for such systems, like putting them between headlights or making them use the same circuits as the brake lights instead of a dedicated light.

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• Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I could see it being an issue for some less-common type of indicator, but everyone who drives knows what a blinker looks like. Nobody would mistake it for anything other than the right hand turn signal.

  Hell, I wouldn’t even notice the shape of the light; all you need to notice while driving is the presence of a flashing light on the right side of the vehicle - if you’re looking intently enough to notice the shape of the light, you’re not paying enough attention to everything else on the road.

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  • Slotos@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the dark, with the other side obscured (or just broken), you don’t want the blinker to actively prompt you to come to a wrong conclusion.

    It’s better to see a blinking light and think “I don’t see enough, gotta slow down” than see a blinking arrow and potentially not even realize it’s a turn signal.

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    • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re driving in the dark with someone whose entire taillight system is out to the point where you can’t immediately tell if his blinker is on the left or the right, you need to hit the brakes and put as much distance between you and them as you can… Then get better headlights, because even in that situation you should still be able to see them pretty well just with your own lights.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Frequently, only a single bulb needs to be out for an entire side of the car to be dark.

        Brakelights are only active while braking. A dark bodied car is difficult to see and a tail light being out is sufficient .

        Blaming it on someone else’s headlights isn’t reasonable- and “better headlights”=brighter has caused significant problems on the other direction.

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• Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now imagine it in, say, fog, or a storm, or any other low-visibility condition. You can see the vague outline of a car 20 feet ahead, and a blinking arrow pointing to the right, but not in line with where a right blinker should be.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If visibility was that low then you wouldn’t even see an arrow. It would just look like a red blinking blob up ahead.

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