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Originally Posted by porsche tech
What’s with so many manufacturers mounting the turn signals or brake lights so low, down below the bumper? This one is a newer Buick but I,ve seen Hyundais and others with the same configuration. Doesn’t seem real safe and I’m a little surprised the DOT allows it (what with all their other rules and regulations). |
The DOT allows it because they successfully regulated that rear glass brake light into existence many moons ago.
Turn signals down low should be fine unless you're following REALLY close.
One of my pet peeves (this happened to me recently) is when you're in slow-moving drive time traffic, two lanes in each direction... 10 cars back from the next intersection and 10 or more cars behind you... and some flea brain wants to be let in from the right, pulling out of a parking area or street
with their left turn signal on. So it's obvious they expect both lanes to stop and let them come across... holding up you and all the vehicles behind you.
The only ones more flea brained than that person is those who stop and let them get away with it.
I'm for being courteous and all that, but I don't believe one has the right to hold up 20 vehicles to let one dummy in.
In my incident, there was a broken-down delivery truck blocking the right lane about 5 cars up ahead, so it was already a bad situation... and the dummy couldn't go through because of oncoming traffic, so it just sat there blocking all of us for 30 seconds or so until there was an opening. It took me 3 more lights to get through that intersection and by that time, the traffic was backed up 30+ cars behind me.