Timeline for Why do I see reverse lights blink on and off on vehicles waiting for a traffic light?
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| Dec 4, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | Graham | @GuntramBlohm Yes, like I said, this is just about the gear lever on an automatic. It will also happen on tiptronic manual/semi-auto gearboxes which use a PRNDL lever, because it's about how you select gears and not how you move the gearbox cogs around. On a regular H-pattern manual gear selector though, as you say, there has to be a separate switch for the reversing light. | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 18:44 | comment | added | SQB | @phyrfox 2015 cars? That's a lot! O. One each. I see. :) | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 17:15 | comment | added | phyrfox | @GuntramBlohm though, as I said, that assumes no hardware faults. It seems like a lot of cars these days have some sort of faults when they come off the assembly line. My wife and I bought some 2015 cars (one each), and they've both had recalls for rather major potential disasters already. | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 17:12 | comment | added | phyrfox | @GuntramBlohm You will never see a manual transmission car flicker their reverse lights (assuming no software/hardware faults), because reverse is out of the way of normal gears. I have a manual transmission, and my reverse lights only come on right before I back up. | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 17:03 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | I guess you're talking about automatic transmission, as manual transmission cars are virtually nonexistent in the US - but what about manual transmissions? I always thought they're still pushing cogwheels around, and have a separate switch to detect reverse, am I wrong? | |
| Dec 1, 2017 at 14:13 | history | answered | Graham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |