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I had to just laugh at your comment. It’s either brilliant sarcasm or you just might be the guy that designed this.

chrisseaton 5y ago
No not joking. They seem to follow the same predictable pattern as every other turn signal I've ever seen. Not sure what the fuss is.
- cortesoft 5y ago
  They do not follow the pattern if every other turn signal you have seen, because no other turn signal has an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of what it is indicating. Can you really not understand how that might cause a moment of confusion? You see a turn signal like normal, but then you notice it is pointing in a different direction… you don’t think that might make some people pause for an instant and think? We are used to both turn signals and arrows being used to indicate direction… when they contradict each other, it is going to get past our automatic brain and make us think, which is bad when driving.
- Toutouxc 5y ago
  Okay, maybe your brain is wired differently, just like the brain of the designer who created the lights. The position of the light on the car is a signal for my brain, but it takes some processing. If it's on the right side of the vehicle, my brain evaluates that to "right" and vice versa, but maybe it's a short car, like a Smart ForTwo or a Fiat 500, and I'm looking at its side, so the right-hand-side indicator is left from the "center of perceived mass", but in that case there should be another smaller light somewhere around the side-view mirror and hmmm, yeah, it's turning right. It just takes a tiny bit of processing power and a tiny bit of time. But an arrow, boy, I've been looking at arrows all my life. They've been telling me where to go at the train station, which way to turn on Google Maps and sometimes even literally which way to turn the steering wheel, on the outside of a sharp turn. An arrow requires no additional processing and is a strong, unmistakable signal. So what my brain sees on that Mini flashing its left indicator is something like "Car turning left, btw RIGHT".
- jakeinspace 5y ago
  I agree! In fact, I’m sick of red meaning stop, and green meaning go for traffic lights. After all, this is redundant information, we all know the arrangement. Why not swap up the colors for fun? This idea is only slightly worse than using wrong-pointing arrows for turn signals.
- mthoms 5y ago
  Now imagine you’ve never seen this before and you’re driving in fog so thick that you can only see the light and not the car.
- gokhan 5y ago
  There's this trick question among children here. One makes the other repeat "white" ten times and immediately asks "What do cows drink?". The answer is almost always milk. It might even be working without repeating white part [1]. You should have encountered many situations like this before, simple tasks creating cognitive load, how can't you know what the fuss is? [1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/01/what-do-cows-drink-milk-or-water-trick-questions-that-show-how-your-brain-organizes-language.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/01/what-do-cows-drink-...
  - _dain_ 5y ago
    but cows do drink milk ..
    - crtasm 5y ago
      Calves drink milk
      - _dain_ 5y ago
        and calves are cows???

No not joking. They seem to follow the same predictable pattern as every other turn signal I've ever seen. Not sure what the fuss is.

cortesoft 5y ago
They do not follow the pattern if every other turn signal you have seen, because no other turn signal has an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of what it is indicating. Can you really not understand how that might cause a moment of confusion? You see a turn signal like normal, but then you notice it is pointing in a different direction… you don’t think that might make some people pause for an instant and think? We are used to both turn signals and arrows being used to indicate direction… when they contradict each other, it is going to get past our automatic brain and make us think, which is bad when driving.
Toutouxc 5y ago
Okay, maybe your brain is wired differently, just like the brain of the designer who created the lights. The position of the light on the car is a signal for my brain, but it takes some processing. If it's on the right side of the vehicle, my brain evaluates that to "right" and vice versa, but maybe it's a short car, like a Smart ForTwo or a Fiat 500, and I'm looking at its side, so the right-hand-side indicator is left from the "center of perceived mass", but in that case there should be another smaller light somewhere around the side-view mirror and hmmm, yeah, it's turning right. It just takes a tiny bit of processing power and a tiny bit of time. But an arrow, boy, I've been looking at arrows all my life. They've been telling me where to go at the train station, which way to turn on Google Maps and sometimes even literally which way to turn the steering wheel, on the outside of a sharp turn. An arrow requires no additional processing and is a strong, unmistakable signal. So what my brain sees on that Mini flashing its left indicator is something like "Car turning left, btw RIGHT".
jakeinspace 5y ago
I agree! In fact, I’m sick of red meaning stop, and green meaning go for traffic lights. After all, this is redundant information, we all know the arrangement. Why not swap up the colors for fun? This idea is only slightly worse than using wrong-pointing arrows for turn signals.
mthoms 5y ago
Now imagine you’ve never seen this before and you’re driving in fog so thick that you can only see the light and not the car.
gokhan 5y ago
There's this trick question among children here. One makes the other repeat "white" ten times and immediately asks "What do cows drink?". The answer is almost always milk. It might even be working without repeating white part [1]. You should have encountered many situations like this before, simple tasks creating cognitive load, how can't you know what the fuss is? [1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/01/what-do-cows-drink-milk-or-water-trick-questions-that-show-how-your-brain-organizes-language.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/01/what-do-cows-drink-...
- _dain_ 5y ago
  but cows do drink milk ..
  - crtasm 5y ago
    Calves drink milk
    - _dain_ 5y ago
      and calves are cows???