Just need to vent...

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  1. bisco

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    i'm not sure there are any left, but there are a couple who rarely post outside of it.
     
    #2921 bisco, Oct 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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    Got another: front turn signals tightly integrated with head lights.

    There's a spot we regularly need to make a left turn, and traffic other side of the intersection may or may not be turning left, as well. The cross street is a bit raised, so the cars opposite are canting up, making low beams pretty much high beams.

    Was there last night, late/dark, squinting at the opposite guy's headlights, and after 2~3 seconds, just barely discerned a small blinking-yellow zone.

    Ask my wife, for a cross-check, and she said nope, no signal..., oh wait: yes. But c'mon...

    This is with stationary vehicles, waiting on a red light. It's totally impossible to judge when both you and the oncoming are rolling.

    off topic: at least on a Windows pc, if you're in the Priuschat edit window, if you/'ve highlighted text, [CTRL]B, [CTRL]I and [CTRL]U make the text Bold, Italic and Underlined respectively. :)
     
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    @ Gimli Glider:
    Few accidents happen for one reason.
    IIRC:
    The skipper took off with a broken fuel gauge (totalizer?) which allowed a math error to result in sucking the tanks dry.
    Years ago when I read about it, I learned that RATs onboard an aircraft are not always a bad thing.
    Perhaps if they'd just stuck with Freedom Units.....


    Fortunately both the pilot and aircraft retired normally, again.... IIRC.

    @ Poorly designed turn signals and headlights.
    I drive either a truck or a mid-size (small) CUV.
    The CUVs at least have adult sized tires - which is what allows them to 'identify as' (pretend to be) SUVs.
    I have not noticed the problem with the indicators.
     
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    My nearest controlled intersection has a similarly sloped road across the way that tilts oncoming low beams into blindly high beams. Its traffic lights have left turn arrows that don't allow conflicting left-turners and straight-throughers at the same time. Some other intersections also have blinking yellow arrows that do allow left turns when gaps occur in the straight through traffic, but this intersection does not. (We don't have blinking green arrows like Canada has.)

    In daytime, I can see LED-DRLs turn off on the side with the active turn signal. Don't remember that happening with nighttime headlights.
     
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    It’s the turn signals on vehicles I’m having a problem seeing, night or day, though night is definitely worse. The intense headlights constrict your pupils, and tightly integrated blinking yellow turn signals are lost in the glare. Here’s a stock image example, a ford f150:

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    #2925 Mendel Leisk, Oct 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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    Same with the rear turn signal for me. When the turn signal is on the brake light should be off. Some manuf. do it right. GM seems to be getting it right with their most recent models.
     
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    The obvious solution, at least to me, is to separate the headlights and turn signals. but that increases complexity, cost, so...

    I actually emailed Transport Canada about this once, got nowhere of course.

    An example from yesteryear, an 81 Civic hatchback, in blue (the first car we had, conicidentally it was blue as well):

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    As John Candy might say, not much to look at, but note the nicely separated turn signals.
     
    #2927 Mendel Leisk, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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    i see this problem a lot. and then you have the 80% who don't even bother with turn signals.
     
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    Hand signals?

    Maybe I am an old fool, but if my drivers window is open I am as likely to use both hand signals and the signal lights.

    Was taught to ALWAYS use hand signals, even with signal lights, but I think that was back when electronics were not so reliable.

    So, if you see an old geezer in a Subaru using hand signals...

    Shoot; are hand signals still legal?
     
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