@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoEuropean crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controlsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1392
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoAnd the insane thing is that some (most? All?) models with it don’t light the brake lights when slowing!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agohttps://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/brake-lights-can-fail-to-provide-fair-warning-on-some-evs-a9533519285/ TLDR : The US doesn’t have regulations on the maximal allowed deceleration before brake light activation. But the EU does. Seem to be mostly a Hyundai/Kia thing that they are currently fixing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agohttps://youtu.be/U0YW7x9U5TQ TLDR: The US requires brake lights to activate when deceleration is intended.
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And the insane thing is that some (most? All?) models with it don’t light the brake lights when slowing!
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/brake-lights-can-fail-to-provide-fair-warning-on-some-evs-a9533519285/
TLDR : The US doesn’t have regulations on the maximal allowed deceleration before brake light activation. But the EU does.
Seem to be mostly a Hyundai/Kia thing that they are currently fixing.
https://youtu.be/U0YW7x9U5TQ
TLDR: The US requires brake lights to activate when deceleration is intended.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/U0YW7x9U5TQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.