US car regulations are weirdly inconsistent. Sometimes they are incredibly strict. You can't have a convex left side mirror and the right one has to carry a stupid warning label. Importing non-antique foreign cars is practically impossible. But then, some obviously unsafe features, such as indicators in the same color as the rear lights, are perfectly legal.

▲ barrkel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The non-convex side mirror almost got me into an accident the first rental car I drove in the US. I was expecting to see more of the road than I did.

▲ aurareturn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

  such as indicators in the same color as the rear lights, are perfectly legal.

My goodness this drives me crazy. Why do cars do this?

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sznio an hour ago | parent [-]

Less lights is less cost. On European streets the easiest way to detect an American-designed car is that they only have one reverse light, the bare minimum. Only suitable as an indicator to the driver behind you. Ever considered trying to reverse into a parking spot without any streetlight nearby? Reversing blind is awesome!

In any European car you get two lights, not in the center but in the corners so you can actually see stuff in your side mirrors while parking.

	▲	PinguTS an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For a long time many German made car like from Audi, Seat, VW, BMW hat just one reverse light. On the left side is the fog light and on the right side is the reversing light.

▲ kelnos an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the indicator color laxness is dumb, but I don't really get when people are so up in arms about it (and yes, I've heard Alec from Technology Connections rant about this many times, and usually agree with the things he says). I have literally never been confused by this. A blinking red light is very different from a solid red light, at least to my eyes.

▲ sschueller an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

These regulations are very odd as the third/center break-light is a US thing that come into Europe.