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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.
I’m 100% on board with the us moving to metric, and in almost all cases I think it’s far easier to use.
But fahrenheit is more intuitive: 100 too hot to work outside, 0 too cold to work outside. It’s just garbage for scientific use. I couldn’t care less if we switched to Celsius, but it’s problem is certainly not intuitiveness.
I would say intuitiveness is more for all of the other measurements. Like 5280 feet in a mile? WTF is that BS.
Fahrenheit isn’t too bad IMO. It’s more granular so it’s usually sufficient to use whole numbers for everything. 0F to 100F is a temperature range a person might be subjected to in day-to-day life, with 0F being pretty cold and 100F being pretty hot.
I never undertand the more granular, the scale is in 180 because that’s the most precision they could use to manufacture scientific thermometers, nowadays it’s completely irrelevant. Celsius thermometers have a granularity of 0.1°C and that is useful soley when you want to differentiate between “almost a slight fever” and “maybe a slight fever”. Do you find yourself needing to differentiate between 45 °F and 46 °F?
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.
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!
This is how the indicators look in the UK
These are aftermarket taillights.
I’m pretty sure the UK ones are animated as well in the direction of travel which makes it even clearer.
Welsh representation
Yup that’s worse… Somehow that’s worse.
Please tell me this is a joke
yeah, I had to get used with the lack of regulations here and there when I moved to the US
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Can you explain because I’m 46 years old and have driven plenty and can’t recall a single time I’ve ever been confused by a turn signal.
This video is better at it than I could be. But I’m short: ambiguity in driving is bad.
https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA
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Amer is harder to notice
I expect you also think Fahrenheit is more intuitive
Harsh words. After all, Rankine is best.
I’m 100% on board with the us moving to metric, and in almost all cases I think it’s far easier to use.
But fahrenheit is more intuitive: 100 too hot to work outside, 0 too cold to work outside. It’s just garbage for scientific use. I couldn’t care less if we switched to Celsius, but it’s problem is certainly not intuitiveness.
I would say intuitiveness is more for all of the other measurements. Like 5280 feet in a mile? WTF is that BS.
Fahrenheit isn’t too bad IMO. It’s more granular so it’s usually sufficient to use whole numbers for everything. 0F to 100F is a temperature range a person might be subjected to in day-to-day life, with 0F being pretty cold and 100F being pretty hot.
I never undertand the more granular, the scale is in 180 because that’s the most precision they could use to manufacture scientific thermometers, nowadays it’s completely irrelevant. Celsius thermometers have a granularity of 0.1°C and that is useful soley when you want to differentiate between “almost a slight fever” and “maybe a slight fever”. Do you find yourself needing to differentiate between 45 °F and 46 °F?
no I go og celcious, boiling water at -100
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.
Thanks for this. I see so many people here talking like it’s obvious, but I’ve never been confused by a turn signal. I’m curious to read this.
not for me i really do have a harder time notices amber
Unless you have some kind of color blindness, orange is among the most noticeable colors to the human eyes, especially in an urban background
it more just the training, from 20 plus years of driving, and looking out for red and orange but yellow colors.