Buick brake lights are too low

[u/DifferentCoyote4562]

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

[u/Popular_Course3885]

US DOT guidelines dictate size/location of where brakes lights can be located, with one major restriction being that your main two brake lights cannot be located on a movable panel (in this case, the hatch/trunk lid). Not sure why they couldn't use the out edge of the lights that are fixed to the side/rear panels, but I'm willing to bet this DOT restriction had something to do with whatever their thought process was.

I knew someone who used to have a Ferrari California, and the brake lights were just like this. The big round lights on the trunk lid couldn't be used, so their brake lights were down on the bumper too. He got pulled over all the time by the police thinking his taillights weren't working correctly.

[u/PseudonymIncognito → u/Popular_Course3885]

DOT also regulates the minimum size of the brake lights and I suspect the high ones are too small.

[u/Salsalito_Turkey → u/PseudonymIncognito]

This is probably the issue, but they could have put supplementary brake lights on the higher taillight assemblies and still been in compliance. This is just a lazy implementation.