• ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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    8 days ago

    Possibly, and I’d be interested in some sort of 360° LED on top of a vehicle to indicate to pedestrians and other drivers alike of its (de)acceleration.

    But jamming some non standard colours in what is a long term understanding on the front of a vehicle I can’t really get with and would like to see the impact to people with partial / colour blindness with using such a system.

    Like, does the average pedestrian know what the green and red lights mean on an aircraft? I bet not.

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      8 days ago

      fair point about color blindness, but surely there is some 4th color that would work well with red/amber/white.

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      8 days ago

      Well you should educate yourself on the rules of the method of travel no matter.

      If you were to go up in the air and you didn’t educate yourself on what the lights mean, you’re going to ruin everyone else’s day in your incredibly dangerous ignorance.

      You don’t take a paddle boat onto the water without understanding some basic principles of water navigation… why would roads in this specific cause be any different? We already do with most land methods, this one is gonna be hinge? Nah. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.

      • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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        8 days ago

        I have, and that’s my point.

        I’m a lowly drone pilot that isn’t really made to understand what those lights mean but did out of my sheer curiosity.

        But the average pedestrian is going to take some, teaching?