Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
by throw0101a on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:22AM
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> This has been a five-year fight over the color of a piece of plastic.
In the EU the turn signals is mandated to be amber. In the US/CA, the turn signal can be either amber or red, but must be of a certain area. Other jurisdictions do not have an area regulation.
So OEMs simply make brake lights double as turn signals when they import vehicles.
If the non-US OEMs 'just' made bigger turn signals they wouldn't have to do this.
In the EU the turn signals is mandated to be amber. In the US/CA, the turn signal can be either amber or red, but must be of a certain area. Other jurisdictions do not have an area regulation.
So OEMs simply make brake lights double as turn signals when they import vehicles.
If the non-US OEMs 'just' made bigger turn signals they wouldn't have to do this.