Seems like most European and Japanese cars have yellow rear turn signals but most American cars have red rear turn signals.
This has been bugging me for many years, please explain. :redface:
What do you mean by rear turn signals? Do you you mean the reversing lights or the left/right turn indicators?
In the UK, brake lights are red, left/right indicators are amber and reversing lights are white. They are different colours to denote the different functions and thus inform other road users about the movement of the car. For example, if the brake lights and the reversing lights were all red, how would the car behind be able to tell, from a distance, whether the car was braking or reversing?
My 1995 Jeep: The front turning signal lights are white, but covered with amber plastic covers. My rear brake lights are white, as are the turning signal lights, but they're both covered with big red plastic covers. My backup lights are white and not covered by anything.
Which cars are you talking about? Are you saying the reverse lights are also used as turn signals?Here's a better question:
Who told the fucking retards in the GM/Chevrolet design division that using the white reverse-indicator lights for ANY OTHER PURPOSE was a good idea???
Every time I see those lights come on suddenly in a parking lot I want to kick these morons in their nutsacks.
Clear bulb, red lens= red light. Some bulbs come in yellow, I don't recall seeing a red automotive bulb.
I am referring to incandescent, I don't know if the new LED's ever have colored bulbs.
Chevy trucks had amber rear turn signals for many years.
Which cars are you talking about? Are you saying the reverse lights are also used as turn signals?
Seems like most European and Japanese cars have yellow rear turn signals but most American cars have red rear turn signals.
This has been bugging me for many years, please explain. :redface:
Here's a better question:
Who told the fucking retards in the GM/Chevrolet design division that using the white reverse-indicator lights for ANY OTHER PURPOSE was a good idea???
Every time I see those lights come on suddenly in a parking lot I want to kick these morons in their nutsacks.
Oh, I see. I'll have to look for that.All the recent GM/Chevy vehicles have a new "feature" where the reverse-indicator lights come on whenever you use the remote to lock/unlock the doors.
So, someone walking toward their car across a parking lot will unlock it, and it appears to the rest of the world that someone has just put the vehicle in Reverse and is backing out.