You had one job…
I think, if you put them together, it’s supposed to be a Union Jack?
Form over function, eh?
Submitted 8 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://hackers.town/@earthshine/112174209944026016
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jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 months ago
GingeyBook@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hence the form in “form over function”
0x0@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yes, Mini uses that pattern a lot.
mindlight@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yup. That’s right.
Michal@programming.dev 8 months ago
Leave it to brits to install right indicator on the left side
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Don’t blame us, Mini has been owned by BMW for decades.
Good thing we stopped them in WW2. That flag in the indicator would have been even more confusing.
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you’re confused on who stopped them. Here’s a hint, it was America and Russia. Personally I agree with Patton however, we shouldn’t have stopped in Berlin. Oh well.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t get it… What’s wrong with it?
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The turn signal to turn left looks like an arrow pointing to the right.
berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The bigger issue is that the US still alows Blinkers to be the same color as break lights. Just weird to me.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I guess… It’s still a big blinking light on either side of the car I hardly think it’s going to confuse anyone
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 months ago
Multiple wrong. The brake light double as a turn signal, the signal colour itself being red, and the arrow pointing at different direction.
In a saner world, signal and brake light will always be separated and must be the colour of amber.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
But that’s just a US issue, right? Most other countries already require amber signal lights.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m turning
-> <-
that way
exanime@lemmy.today 8 months ago
It’s the right turning light… In the shape of an arrow pointing left
recapitated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How else would you know which car is turning right??
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
How do we know this isn’t just someone on the brake where one bulb has blown?
systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a video in case you are just looking at the still picture.
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yup you’re right I didn’t notice it’s a GIF
Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Means how the top center brake light is also lit up, I think you’re right.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I think you two are too European to understand this.
The US and Canada allows blinking a brake light to act as a turn signal. It’s absolutely stupid, I know.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I just like to tell the Americans that this is your fault. You have lacks traffic laws that allow this kind of thing. This isn’t be legal in the UK.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Lax* but yes they also lack them too
whome@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They look like this here in Germany, sure there was the brexit but do you really have s different version?
Zeritu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Germany only allows amber turn signals.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I thought it was an EU law but maybe not. He had all indicators have to be separate lights, you can’t flash the brake light light that. It must be a proper indicator light.
So here they have the same basic look for the lights, IE the union jack effect, but that LED panels and they kind of pulse in the direction of the indication so it’s much less confusing, they don’t just flash on and off.
HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
No, the turn signals (“Blinker”) here in Germany have to be yellow.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Lax* short for “relaxed.”
Not trying to be a dick, just took me a minute going “how does one ‘have lacks,’ one can ‘have a lack of,’ one can ‘lack,’ but ‘have lacks?!’ OHHHH.” Lol
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 8 months ago
*This isn’t legal in the UK. Fixed it
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Why would you ever click a link from hackers.town tho
perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My thinking:
Hackers != crackers
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I don’t want to go to crackers.town either… That’s a bad vibe
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
You know, I feel like it’s really easy to get someone to click a link in browser. I pretty much expect the browser to be secure enough to do most of the heavy lifting, security-wise.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is it not valid to hang the Union Jack vertically, like a pennant? Mini could have just designed each light to be a complete flag, made the same reference, and not have everyone point and laugh at them.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I honestly think this qualifies you to be part of their design team. Clearly you have a smarter take on at least one design question, qualifications or no.
dog_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s supposed to represent the union jack. I understand how it could be frustrating though.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe put the whole flag on each indicator then.
dog_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s probably a lot harder than you think.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Oh god, which way is it turning?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right, I didn’t even realise what the problem was supposed to be. But it’s still a bit of a shit indicator.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I actually think it’s left. The blinking light is on the side turned into, even if it just happens to be shaped like an arrow pointing right.
pootzapie@kbin.social 8 months ago
This has ALWAYS irritated me, THANK YOU!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Think of it as a chicken’s foot.
The car has_many places to be over that way.
dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
Underrated comment
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You could say that about anything that’s broken though. … this isn’t a deflect caused by prioritising style to something else
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
It isn’t broken though it’s operating as intended. Which is just stupid.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh its indicating for a turn? If that is the case then it is pretty neat!
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And it’s also red. I hate red turning indicators, they should be amber.
Neato@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
They are required to be in other countries. At some point we decided red was ok and there’s so many problems with that!
Skua@kbin.social 8 months ago
This is how the indicators look in the UK
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yeah, I had to get used with the lack of regulations here and there when I moved to the US
land of the free corporations
EatATaco@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Can you explain because I’m 46 years old and have driven plenty and can’t recall a single time I’ve ever been confused by a turn signal.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Amer is harder to notice
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I expect you also think Fahrenheit is more intuitive
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Amber has been scientifically proven to be easier to notice, and mildly safer than using the same bulb as the brake light to indicate a turn.
Here’s a paper on it. crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/…/811115
This paper contains data relating to the effectiveness of amber turn signals by comparing striking and struck cars with the same configuration (amber or red), and the odds of not getting struck with an amber turn signal equipped vehicle is always about 4-8% better than otherwise.