"newshound" wrote in message
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On 5/24/2017 8:57 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
To hi-jack this thread slightly, it seems to me that the indicators on
many modern cars are significantly less visible, especially off-axis, than
those of older vehicles. Being positioned very close to bright LED running
lights does not help in other cases, too (so dimming these seems an
excellent idea to me).

VW Golfs of recent vintage are terrible for visibility of indicators: the
front ones are placed close to the headlights and the back ones are right
next to the brake lights. Gone are the days when you had a side light /
indicator cluster that was totally separate from the headlights - maybe
within or underneath the bumpers.

I'm surprised that various countries haven't collectively mandated more
stringent Construction and Use regulations which require the indicator to be
as far as possible from any other source of bright light (headlight/DRL at
front, brake/fog at rear), and returning to the old days of function being
more important than style.

I too think that modern cars' indicators are far less conspicuous,
especially in daylight when the light reflected off the clear "glass" of the
cluster makes it harder to see the slightly brighter "on" phase of the
flashing light.