On: Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense

[olliej]

CHP should just pull them over for faulty lighting, as this seems a direct violation of CA vehicle codes:

Section 24602: (f) All stoplamps shall be plainly visible and understandable from a distance of 300 feet... (g) Stoplamps shall be activated upon application of the service (foot) brake and the hand control head for air, vacuum, or electric brakes.

Turning off a light is not activating it.

This is so egregious I'm going to assume that this one is actually just has faulty constructing as that seems more plausible.

[starbase → olliej]

The full width red bar is not a stoplamp. The three (brighter) lights that activate on braking are stoplamps. No violation of code.

[olliej → starbase]

You have a full width red light, that you turn off when braking, in the vague hope the small red lights in the corner show up more. Which they don't: I had to watch the video multiple times to actually understand the behaviour.

So they fail the first part of the CA vehicle code that requires that the stop lights be understandable.

But if you watch the video you see another violation: CA requires three stop lights for the overwhelming majority of cars, but while watching this video you can see only one stop light is shown, which is a third of the legal requirements for a modern car, and half the requirements from one 50 years old. You might try to say "well the other light is currently a signal" but the law does not say you can have a union of the correct set of lights. You must have all of them. So if you lose a stop light when the indicator is on your car is not compliant.

But again, this is all dumb detail though, the CA vehicle code says - before other specific regulation - that the stop lights must be configured in a clear and understandable way, and this is clearly stupid and not understandable without knowing the exact idiocy of the truck.