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more about #turnsignal more comments → Brian: While you're at it NHTSA, can you please mandate that F-tards who insist on driving around with the fog lights on when it is crystal clear night be ki... more » mzs: Cool we're half way to where we should be. Now how much longer until until we get one white backing light and one red fog light? About 8 years ago I s... more » Alfisted: So all new panel vans will come with amber alerts pre-installed? That should be a real time saver. more » Boosted Lego Wagon: I don't see how this can be true. After all, it's mostly european cars that have amber turn signals. BMWs don't use theirs, Volkswagens have theirs fa... more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): Also, amber signal != amber lens My car's taillights are red overall, but they house red, amber, and white lights within them. Same thing with clear f... more » maximum-sienna: more » ptschett: I wonder if they factored in burnt-out brake lights? Every day I see cars that have separate rear turn signals and that only have the CHMSL left work... more » FlakJack: "A separate study found NHTSA just got 5.3% more anal." So you're saying their significant others enthusiastically approved of this decision? more » rickerbr: Once again, scrap the 1920s US lighting laws, do as the Europeans do and be done with it. FWIW I've got European spec OE Led tail lights on my GTI lik... more » leavethegun-takethecannoli: Relax guys. It's just a rumor. I heard that the government is cutting funding to the NHTSA and soon they won't around to enforce this. Yeah right, but... more » Maymar: Fantastic, orange is so much safer when not used than red. more » combat chuck: Here in Orlando, this is irrelevant, as no one uses their turn signals anyway. more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: That's a petty, lame ass statistic. However, I'm not bothered by amber turn signals and they often make the tail lights look better. If nothing else, ... more » Jeb_Hoge: Call me crazy, but I like the amber. If I ever got a 1st gen Focus hatch, I had plans to replace the US-spec tails with Euro tails (which had an amber... more » Jo Schmo: What a joke. You want to prevent more crashes? Make all brake-lights LED so you can actually tell when the the schmutz in the beat up old Thunderbird ... more » -
#carlaws
NHTSA May Force All-Orange Turn Signals
NHTSA is considering mandating all rear turn signals come in amber on evidence they are 5.3% better at preventing crashes over red. A separate study found NHTSA just got 5.3% more anal. [Cars.com via Autoblog]
