Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack
by Marsymars on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:06PM
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Following that, it's hard to argue that cars shouldn't come with mandatory reflective strips. (Which, of the top of my head, actually doesn't seem like a bad idea.)
Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack
by whenchamenia on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:38PM
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Most do. Every car and motorcycle I own has reflectors on all sides.
It's illegal in this country—the UK—to drive at night without lights. Doesn't stop it happening, though. Either someone forgets to turn the lights on, if they're manually controlled, or they actively turn them off because the UI is ambiguous (this happened to me, once), or the filament bulb burns out (again: filament bulbs are/were mandatory in the UK, originally to rule out carbide lamps without actually banning them), or there's a wiring/software fault.
The point is, vehicle safety measures should be fail-safe, and driving an invisible vehicle at night and relying on lights to make yourself seen is kind of the opposite of that.