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For a car branded for being small, that is now 3x heavier than the original sensational design I would not call this absolute idiocy . It is consistent idiocy .
Cost of compliance but in pounds instead of dollars.
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If it's dark, I would assume it is likely that the taillights are also on.
Usually yes. But in urban areas (where there are lots of street lights, and lots of cyclists), people often forget to turn their lights on. I guess it's becoming less of a problem now that most cars have auto lights, but I still see cars driving around without lights pretty regularly.
Last year saw a revival of drive-in cinemas in my area (for ... obvious reasons).
Apparently drivers are getting so used to the automation, that the staff was doing rounds telling the audience to turn off their automatic lights.
Then, on the way out, at least the driver in front of us completely forgot to turn on the lights again. This was not in a well lit area, but on cross country roads. I honestly have no idea how the driver did not notice that she couldn't see the road well.
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I just check my lights in either glass window reflections or paint reflections from parked cars depending on how and where I’m parked. The only car that needed the engine oil checked regularly was our second car, a 12 year old Opel Corsa. All other cars kept their fluid and just needed the oil changed at the regular intervals.
My 2000 model Audi actually has a indicator light on the dash that only comes in when the stop lamp is not coming on, but only when the brake pedal is pressed.
If it were turning left (as per the "arrow" direction) then the light would also need to be on the left hand side, and I would have to be imagining a whole car exists to the right of it. Which means either:
- I cannot move into where said phantom car is, ie where the real car is going
- upon observation of the lack of car it is obvious that the turn signal is to the right
I have seen a few of these, and I haven't suffered a moment of confusion because I am not looking for arrows to indicate direction. Indeed I have never seen an arrow light indicating direction of turn! It is simply a point in reference to the position of the vehicle.
Side note - this is why hazard lights suck. If you can only see one side of the car they're indistinguishable from an indicator and a source of regular confusion in the real world (for me, at least)
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Even if I could see the full back of the car I think I'd still risk a brain-fart. It's like a driving Stroop Test (where words like "blue" are shown but you have to say what colour they are shown in, not what colour they say).
The designers screwed up many obvious things, not just these signals. Mini Mk 1 (2000) was a beautiful minimal design by Frank Stephenson. Things started going downhill with Mk 2 (2006) and further models. He left, and I guess designers suffered from non-invented here syndrome. I own a Mk 1 and I've leased or driven all other models. Aside from being uglier, many subtle things in the dashboard were tweaked making it…
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Or when it's dark. I'm imagining a cyclist or pedestrian seeing only the blinking light and maybe a vague outline of the vehicle at best, seeing the 1 https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/04/08/whats-a-right-...
If it's dark, I would assume it is likely that the taillights are also on.
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Usually yes. But in urban areas (where there are lots of street lights, and lots of cyclists), people often forget to turn their lights on. I guess it's becoming less of a problem now that most cars have auto lights, but I still see cars driving around without lights pretty regularly.
Story time! Last year saw a revival of drive-in cinemas in my area (for ... obvious reasons). Apparently drivers are getting so used to the automation, that the staff was doing rounds telling the audience to turn off their automatic lights. Then, on the way out, at least the driver in front of us completely forgot to turn on the lights again. This was not in a well lit area, but on cross country roads. I honestly hav…
If the drive-in theater became a real thing again, I imagine it would have to adapt to these realities.
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The designers screwed up many obvious things, not just these signals. Mini Mk 1 (2000) was a beautiful minimal design by Frank Stephenson. Things started going downhill with Mk 2 (2006) and further models. He left, and I guess designers suffered from non-invented here syndrome. I own a Mk 1 and I've leased or driven all other models. Aside from being uglier, many subtle things in the dashboard were tweaked making it…
That makes me sad. I learnt to drive in the Mk 1, it was a really nice car. The current crop are just plain fugly.
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> The Mini indicators don't look like arrows to me. How do you draw an arrow?
They don't look like one as they're not in the context of one.
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Usually yes. But in urban areas (where there are lots of street lights, and lots of cyclists), people often forget to turn their lights on. I guess it's becoming less of a problem now that most cars have auto lights, but I still see cars driving around without lights pretty regularly.
Yeah I’m astonished at how often people drive with headlights off. Why is it even an option for lights to be off when in drive? I can understand wanting to turn them off sometimes, but not while moving.