Can we please stop it with sequential turn signals?

[97prizm]

It’s too fast - nobody’s foot or system is that fast … then it’s solid.
No doubt they draw awareness - especially at night - and up high on SUV’s. Anyone notice the percentage of SUV’s lately …

A few systems can light up a percentage or flash really fast. They're aftermarket from memory.

 

[97prizm]

It flashes to attract the eyes more so than just a solid brake light…no?

This is exactly it. There are studies on this. Recently it's been studied that LEDs light up faster causing fewer accidents.

 

[4wd]

A few systems can light up a percentage or flash really fast. They're aftermarket from memory.

Yes, what we have is a very rapid strobe for a second and then it’s normal. The other brake lights are normal.
As for the various turn signals - like everything - some have pulled it off well - some not so much …

 

[4wd]

This is exactly it. There are studies on this. Recently it's been studied that LEDs light up faster causing fewer accidents.

Yep. Years ago - I was in traffic and an Escalade had the only LED system in front of me. Obviously faster and more visible …

 

[4wd]

The other thing is that many are doing sequential from a one piece. All these years later - our Mustang retains these:

 

[JGmazda]

You mean there are drivers that actually USE their turn signals?? Amazing.

 

[Carmudgeon]

Vehicle lighting is a safety system, and there are human factors/psychology behind how people see, interpret, and react to lighting on a subconscious level, something most people don't comprehend, nor respect.

Combine that with a degree of selfishness, cheap gizmos, and pseudo-scientific marketing, especially in the aftermarket lighting segment, and the results are entirely predictable, as in not desirable.

 

[Kira]

However it's done, sequential lighting had to be designed and paid for, raising the cost of your vehicle.
In my opinion, they fall into "showroom (or TV commercial)" options.

The pulsing CHMSL, a simple add-on-like a motorcycle's headlight modulator-seems OK in theory.
Frankly, I don't seee many of them whilst driving.
Also, I too do not want "dealership untouchables" monkeying with anything on my car.

 

[repairman54]

How is it another level of protection?

It helps to wake up day dreaming car jockey's so I don't get run over on my murdercycle that only has one brake light. LED tailight assy. on it also.

 

[Number_35]

I remember the mid sixties Mercury Cougars having the first sequential turn signals I had ever seen. The Cougar TV commercials at the time likened it to the Cougar twitching its tail. Sequential, red, amber doesn’t bother me at all. What does bother me is seeing the brake lights light up 5 seconds and the driver half way through their turn before the turn signal starts to blink.

I also first saw them on a '67 or '68 Mercury Cougar. I had no idea how they worked.

Some years later I was given a '69 Imperial. The turn signals didn't work. I bought a factory service manual (this was in the mid-'80s, pre-internet) and learned that the turn signals were supposed to be sequential, and were driven by a wax-encased electric motor in the trunk. By that time the sequencer was NLA, so I bypassed it and wired in an electronic flasher instead.