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All cars I've seen have the same pattern for both turn signals and hazard lights: 1-2-1-2, or on-off-on-off. The problem is when a vehicle is on the side of the road, the far side is often obscured by another vehicle, signage, shrubbery... making it impossible to tell if the hazards are on, or if the
driver is signaling their intention to merge back into traffic.
This is why we need distinct patterns for each state. Keep the existing pattern for turn signals. Use a 1-2-3-1-2-3 pattern for hazards: on-on-off-on-on-off...
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How exactly does an 'on-on-off' work? Surely the first two 'ons' need to be punctuated by an 'off' in the middle, therefore becoming an 'on-off-on-off', remarkably similar to a commonly-used sequence, 'on-off-on.... et al'? |
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You got soft then did you [UB]? Never thought I'd liveto see the day. |
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What if the idea was for morse code hazard lights: on-on-off would be a bar, on-off would be a dot. You could tell people what exactly was wrong. Hmm? mfd? |
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Mister Sketchly: Yes, I suppose my nomenclature wasn't the best. Technically I suppose the hazards should be on-off-on-off-off-off... Maybe a better analogy is music notation, where standard turn signals are on 1 and 3 in 4/4 time, and hazards are on 1 and 2 in 3/4 time. |
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