Form over function, eh?
Form over function, eh?
Attached: 1 image A series of decisions were made at Mini which resulted in what is unambiguously the worst indicator design of all time. It is so bad that after seeing it on the street, I just had to post about it here.
You had one job...
And it's also red. I hate red turning indicators, they should be amber.
They are required to be in other countries. At some point we decided red was ok and there's so many problems with that!
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
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.
I think, if you put them together, it's supposed to be a Union Jack?
Hence the form in "form over function"
Yes, Mini uses that pattern a lot.
Yup. That's right.
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 don't get it... What's wrong with it?
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.
I'm turning
-> <-
that way
How do we know this isn't just someone on the brake where one bulb has blown?
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
They look like this here in Germany, sure there was the brexit but do you really have s different version?
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.
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
*This isn't legal in the UK. Fixed it
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.
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, paper qualifications or no.
Why would you ever click a link from hackers.town tho
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, and click on whatever.
Is that dumb?
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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