r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DifferentCoyote4562 • 11h ago

I saw a ducky once Buick brake lights are too low

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Not my pictures, but saw this car today. The brake lights are definitely not where you'd expect them and annoyingly low

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u/Dawghouse87 11h ago

I also hate this. Been in auto industry for many years. I believe Mini does this too as well as some other models. Kia I think?

But yeah, we are trained to look where we always look for brake lights. When you first look at the back of this car, you immediately recognize something is off. So in an emergency stop situation, that 1 second delay from the brake lights being in a different location could be the difference in hitting them or not in my opinion.

I hate when manufactures try to redesign the wheel. They only did this to be “stylish”

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u/kickit08 9h ago

I hate all the US only turn signal/ break lights that are just red and don’t have amber for turn/ hazards. It makes it slows your reaction speed because you need to determine if they turned on their hazards, are turning, or breaking. If sombody does drive with their hazards on even temporarily it makes it impossible to know when somebody is actually breaking.

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u/YourRightSock 9h ago

I ain't a fan of it either but I'd at least rather them seperate the bulb entirely and stop doing the 1 light does everything shortcut. Regardless of how people see it the bulb or relay breaks and screws up how everything in it functions half the time.

So many trucks I see have one taillight out that does random things or just nothing because of that