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Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] PhotatoMan@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is probably country/region specific but my car (Tesla) illuminates the brake lights when it detects a certain level of deceleration. Also my work vehicles (Volvo V90 CrossCountry and XC60) do this. Finland/Sweden in my case. My car also flash the hazards when it detects hard braking and I've seen quite many euro cars do this. I agree that this should be standard.

[โ€“] JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Activating the hazards when hard breaking is also just common practice to do manually (at least in western Europe)