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/BadluckyKamy 9h ago

Well, in theory, you should always see the bottom of the rear tire of the car in front of you (in Quebec at least I don't know about other provinces/states laws) but in practice that never happened and still make these lights placement plain stupid and dangerous

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u/YouWithTheNose 9h ago

It's a good rule of thumb and good practice, but not required by any law that I'm aware of. They'd have no way to enforce that

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u/BadluckyKamy 8h ago

Well it's hard to do too, like if I let enough space to see the bottom of the car in front of me, someone would just slip on between me and said car and we're back to bumper to bumper

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u/DustyRacoonDad 8h ago

Its not even a good rule of thumb due to the separate heights of people, car seat position and people.

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u/Longjumping_Stuff20 8h ago

If you're in a ridiculously high SUV you need to be further back. Which makes sense, your stopping distance is in parsecs.

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u/DustyRacoonDad 8h ago

Read what you just said.
Your stopping distance.
When you are stopped at a light.

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u/glitterfaust 7h ago

It’s still taught in most states.

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u/DustyRacoonDad 6h ago

Show me. I would be really interested to see that. I used to do traffic engineering and taught MSF so I would love some factual info on it. I'm not just saying it like internet jerk saying "prove it"... I am genuinely interested in the subject. Because really I think this is just a sort of bullshit rule of thumb that people tell other people but is not actually smart if you took 50 seconds to think it through.

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u/glitterfaust 2h ago

It’s in their DMV manuals.

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u/DustyRacoonDad 1h ago

Yeah I'm going to have to definitely call BS on you there.  I can show you the manuals for 33 different states that I'm familiar with. Maybe you were thinking of exactly the ones I'm not. Lol

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u/glitterfaust 1h ago

Is TN not on that list?

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u/DustyRacoonDad 28m ago

TN has something similar to that in their CDL manual for semi trucks, nothing for passenger vehicles, which is what the topic is.