Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
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Re: Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
#2HAHAHAHAHA I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them). Headlights work (nope people still don't turn them on when it's raining).
Re: Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
#3HAHAHAHAHA I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them). Headlights work (nope people still don't turn them on when it's raining).
Well, front brake lights take out user errors for activating them.
Re: Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
#4HAHAHAHAHA I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them). Headlights work (nope people still don't turn them on when it's raining).
So because some people are terrible drivers that do illegal things, we should do nothing but be sarcastic on the internet?
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#6>> a front brake light provides an essential visual cue that a car is slowing down or preparing to stop. When the light is extinguished, it indicates that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement
Written by someone who does not drive a manual transmission, or live in the mountains. Brakelights, at best, state that a car is undergoing some degree of braking forces. Anything more is a very dangerous assumption. Cars can accellerate with thier brakes on, and can remain stopped with them off. (Also, every motorcycle on a flat surface uses their feet to stay stopped at long lights.)
Cars start moving with brakelights on all the time, especially with automatic transmissions where it can take significant force to keep the transmission in check. And hills. A better light might be one that changes in intensity with brake pedal force, so pedestrians can see when an inattentive driver is about to take thier foot off the brake.
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#7Nice idea. I’m in the habit of watching for wheels to start rolling when I’m worried someone will unexpectedly pull out in front of me. A brake light is easier to see. Another scenario is an oncoming car braking which could help notice an animal entering the road or that the car has lost control ahead of you (sudden ice, for example.)
Why green instead of red? Would it be an inverse brake light (green appears when foot lets off the brake?) I don’t see how any color light is easy to retrofit.
> The innovative design of front brake lights adds another layer of practicality. These lights would emit a green glow rather than the traditional red, easily integrating into current vehicle frameworks without extensive modifications.
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#8Having grown very happy with the radar for my bicycle, I'm growing more and more curious why we don't have more of those on our cars. I've seen the nice visibility affordances on some high end cars when you do reverse. Seems that the parts and sensors needed for that have grown considerably without people knowing?
Direct to this, I'm surprised the light would reduce accidents by so much. That said, I don't see any reason not to explore it more.
Re: Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
#9HAHAHAHAHA I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them). Headlights work (nope people still don't turn them on when it's raining).
> I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them)
That's a very culture-dependent thing, it's much more unusual for me to see someone not using turn signals in Sweden than it is in the USA or Brazil. If no one around you uses them I'd blame driving licence requirements, enforcement, and training for it.
Re: Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
#10HAHAHAHAHA I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them). Headlights work (nope people still don't turn them on when it's raining).
> I mean turn signals work great (oh wait no one uses them) That's a very culture-dependent thing, it's much more unusual for me to see someone not using turn signals in Sweden than it is in the USA or Brazil. If no one around you uses them I'd blame driving licence requirements, enforcement, and training for it.
Even in the US, there are large regional differences. In my part of the US, people use their turns signals probably 80-90% of the time, but I've been in several parts of the US where they don't.
OTOH, there are other bad driving habits that more common where I am than in many other places, such as running red lights.