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Leave it to brits to install right indicator on the left side
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.
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.
Lax* but yes they also lack them too
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
They look like this here in Germany, sure there was the brexit but do you really have s different version?
Germany only allows amber turn signals.
Yeah regardless of what the above guy says I’m pretty positive separate indicators are actually EU mandate that the UK still follows because it turns out most EU laws are actually sensible, who knew.
I think they just meant that the rear tail lights have the union jack and didn’t realize they were talking about the amber indicators.
I thought it was an EU law but maybe not. All indicators have to be separate lights, you can’t flash the brake light like that. It must be a proper indicator light.
So here they have the same basic look for the lights, i.e. 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.
No, the turn signals (“Blinker”) here in Germany have to be yellow.
How do we know this isn’t just someone on the brake where one bulb has blown?
It’s a video in case you are just looking at the still picture.
Yup you’re right I didn’t notice it’s a GIF
Glad to have helped :)
This has ALWAYS irritated me, THANK YOU!
Think of it as a chicken’s foot.
The car has_many places to be over that way.
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Oh god, which way is it actually turning?
And it’s also red. I hate red turning indicators, they should be amber.
Amer is harder to notice
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. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/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.
