Required side turn signals in North American cars (yellow light, AWD, BMW)
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Complete biased bologny. The US has MORE stringent testing than Europe as a whole. The US uses higher speeds and heavier crash test dummies resulting in better results.
Don't know why people are so quick to believe the worst about the US, even to the point of inventing untruths.
This is true. Some people hear about one particular thing and generalize that over the entire system, whereas if they actually knew the truth, they'd see the US is more stringent in some areas and less stringent in others, to the extent that it's just as expensive to retrofit a European car for additional safety and environmental standards for the US as vice versa.
Why do you prefer red blinkers in the rear? I see your point that if one sees a blinking light, of any color, one will eventually figure out that the person wants to turn in the direction indicated. But my point is by having the blinker a different color than the brake light, one can tell instantly whether it is a turn or a stop that is being signaled. Why do you prefer to have the brake and turn indicators be the same color?
Two lights--no, make that three lights (including the "high point light") = stop. One blinking light = turn. I can't imagine anyone in real life spending any time confused by someone tapping his breaks.
You like to praise America and want to make everything more difficult when it is proven that amber back turn signals lead to less rear-end crashes even according to US studies!
I'd like to see that proof. I don't really care either way, but I'd like to see that proof.
I've also noted that a lot of imports also have red rear turn signals. There is no law requiring red rear turn signals, so if everyone else is making them amber, why wouldn't all imports have amber rear turn signals?
My daughter's Mitsusbishi, for instance, has red rear turn signals. I don't know whether the Mitsubishis intended for Japan have amber or not, but why would they have a second line installing red lights when no US law requires it?
I'd like to see that proof. I don't really care either way, but I'd like to see that proof.
I've also noted that a lot of imports also have red rear turn signals. There is no law requiring red rear turn signals, so if everyone else is making them amber, why wouldn't all imports have amber rear turn signals?
My daughter's Mitsusbishi, for instance, has red rear turn signals. I don't know whether the Mitsubishis intended for Japan have amber or not, but why would they have a second line installing red lights when no US law requires it?
“In 2008, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for writing U.S. vehicle safety standards, released tentative findings that amber (‘yellow’) turn signals are up to 28% more effective at avoiding crashes than red ones,” wrote automotive author Daniel Stern on the website aCarPlace.com.
“Then, in 2009, they released preliminary findings that across all situations, including those in which turn signals don’t matter,vehicles with amber rear turn signals are 5.3% less likely to be hit from behind than otherwise-identical vehicles with red ones."
Spent my honeymoon in Ireland for a week or two. Average car size is much smaller than it is in the US.
American cars are tested to higher standards in collisions, because chances are if you get hit it's going to be by an SUV, not a fiat.
On top of that, US drivers rarely wear safety belts, and collision standards take that in mind over here. Not the case for EU.
That's complete nonsense.
The emphasis has been wear your seatbelt, wear your seatbelt, wear your seatbelt for a long time now.
Anyone who chooses not to wear a seatbelt is an idiot.
Also, anyone who doesn't belt their children into a quality car seat or booster seat, as required by law, should be charged with child endangerment.
I'd like to see that proof. I don't really care either way, but I'd like to see that proof.
I've also noted that a lot of imports also have red rear turn signals. There is no law requiring red rear turn signals, so if everyone else is making them amber, why wouldn't all imports have amber rear turn signals?
My daughter's Mitsusbishi, for instance, has red rear turn signals. I don't know whether the Mitsubishis intended for Japan have amber or not, but why would they have a second line installing red lights when no US law requires it?
Because they think that's what Americans want. Back home, the same car has amber signals.
Because they think that's what Americans want. Back home, the same car has amber signals.
I'd be surprised if marketing surveys show that Americans care...except to the extent that they've been annoyed by Europeans over the matter--such as this thread.
Otherwise, I doubt Americans care one way or the other. Who would have otherwise bought a Mitsubishi, but refuses because it's now got amber turn signals?
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