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#3059162 4-Apr-2023 20:19

SomeoneSomewhere:/>Indicator left on is a common one. Turning off the ignition turns off the lights, indicators, and wipers, but still triggers the "wait, you're leaving the car with the lights on" warning. I could also see a stupid implementation of automatic headlights doing the same.

I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

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#3059175 4-Apr-2023 21:50

Bung: I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

This is common in European brands and useful when you park in narrow streets that are common in some cities and villages.

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#3059682 6-Apr-2023 10:00

I just watched a video of Stairway to Heaven with AI generated images. The images are really disturbing. If this is how AI sees things, we really are doomed!

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#3059684 6-Apr-2023 10:08

freitasm:

Bung: I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

This is common in European brands and useful when you park in narrow streets that are common in some cities and villages.

Had this feature on my English built 1956 Rover 90

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#3059686 6-Apr-2023 10:12

freitasm:

Bung: I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

This is common in European brands and useful when you park in narrow streets that are common in some cities and villages.

This is why you often see euros like golfs parked up with the kerb side park light on and then a flat battery the next day.

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#3059688 6-Apr-2023 10:24

freitasm:

Bung: I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

This is common in European brands and useful when you park in narrow streets that are common in some cities and villages.

What's the utility of only lighting one side of the vehicle vs two?

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#3059689 6-Apr-2023 10:24

It's easy to end up with a flat battery if it's usually only half charged because the car gets too many short trips.

Edit Only running 2 bulbs instead of 4 reduces drain on battery. Possibly only 1 tail light would have been enough for parking.

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#3059691 6-Apr-2023 10:25

MikeAqua:

freitasm:

Bung: I've driven cars where indicator stalk switched front and rear position lights on 1 side for parking rather than having all corners lit.

This is common in European brands and useful when you park in narrow streets that are common in some cities and villages.

What's the utility of only lighting one side of the vehicle vs two?

As I mentioned, in some small European towns roads are narrow so you can park half on the road, half on the path and leave parking lights on the road side on for safety.

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#3059696 6-Apr-2023 10:38

freitasm:

As I mentioned, in some small European towns roads are narrow so you can park half on the road, half on the path and leave parking lights on the road side on for safety.

I think this is required in England. Not sure but they all do it.

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#3059697 6-Apr-2023 10:39

I drive a relatively common ute, this morning another one cut off a vehicle turning two lanes of traffic.

At the next set of lights, said ute was 1/2 dozen cars in front....and red

Driver gets out, walks back to me and fires off.

I explained it's hard to cut someone off if your behind them and that the discussion was better suited to the red ute.....mines black

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#3059701 6-Apr-2023 10:48

MikeAqua:

What's the utility of only lighting one side of the vehicle vs two?

Half the power consumption, so double the time the car can be left without the battery going flat.

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#3059712 6-Apr-2023 11:01

It also doesnt light up the dash in older cars where that was just lit with the tail lights.

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#3059830 6-Apr-2023 17:00

This Kickstarter ebike. It's.... it's.... words fail me.

My suspicion is it's a scam of some sort, their funding goal is the cost of two of their A1 Pro bikes so I can't see what the point of the campaign is apart from getting publicity.

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#3059880 6-Apr-2023 17:30

neb: This Kickstarter ebike. It's.... it's.... words fail me. My suspicion is it's a scam of some sort, their funding goal is the cost of two of their A1 Pro bikes so I can't see what the point of the campaign is apart from getting publicity.

Kickstarter is just a way of taking preorders. Lots of companies do it this way now.

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#3060276 8-Apr-2023 09:11

This is what happens when you have a computer work things out and don't have a human to verify. A recipe calls for 41 247ths of a 6-pack of eggs. This works out at 0.996 eggs. Are they storing egg counts as floating point numbers or something?!

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