A single strobe white light may be used by the hospital hearse vans. Regulation also states that the Military as well as vehicles carrying politicians can make use of a single rotating blue light at the roof. As of 2022, more than 20% of public EV charging ports in the United States were DC fast chargers. French law strictly states what kind of blue lights and sirens an emergency vehicle can display, with 2 different categories. Red: Used by any vehicle defined as an emergency vehicle to signify vehicles to give way to the emergency vehicle. Vehicles using flashing blue lights and siren have right of way over all other vehicles. ABS is offered or comes standard on most road vehicles and is the foundation for electronic stability control systems, which are rapidly increasing in popularity due to the great reduction in the price of vehicle electronics over the years.
This latter function, depending on its specific capabilities and implementation, is known variously as electronic brakeforce distribution, traction control system, emergency brake assist, or electronic stability control (ESC). The advantage of electronic speed control over its mechanical predecessor was that it could be integrated with electronic accident avoidance and engine management systems. Under Hong Kong Law, Chapter 374G of the Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations: Section 46 Giving way to animals, police vehicles, ambulances, etc., drivers must yield to vehicles which are sounding siren and/or flashing light bars. Most often used are STOP POLITIE (ordering a driver to pull over and stop) or VOLGEN POLITIE (ordering driver to follow the police vehicle). This could be operated by the driver to indicate that it was safe for the following vehicle to overtake. Available as Passenger side, Driver side and as a pair (Passenger/Driver Side set). Although not specifically linked to the use of warning beacons, the police, fire brigade and ambulance services (but not the other emergency services listed above) may also choose to allow their drivers to claim legal exemptions from most motoring regulations, such as being able to treat a red traffic light as a give way sign, exceeding the speed limit, passing the wrong side of a keep left/right sign, or parking in restricted areas.
A predictive forward collision warning system warns the driver of risks that may be obscured from the driver's view. An alarm is used to warn the driver of a potential collision hazard in the pre-collision system. Map lights are aimed at specific passenger positions and allow for reading without glare distraction to the driver. Some later Holden Astra models are fitted with Blaupunkt systems (with others being produced by Delphi Automotive). LED lighting systems are sensitive to heat. Blue and yellow are the only colours of flashing lights legal for use on moving vehicles. Amber or yellow flashing lights and lightbars are for warning some special attribute (e.g. oversized, slow, parking at unexpected places etc.) of vehicles like garbage trucks, road cleaning/control/repair, snow plow, car assistance services, construction, transporting dangerous materials etc. Amber/yellow lights do not grant traffic privileges, except to go in the opposite direction in one-way streets or driving on the opposite side in some cases, e.g. road cleaning. Others still can be seen with yellow lights, like in Spain.
Some ambulances can be seen with green lights, meaning they were imported from Argentina where ambulances always use green lights. This greatly increases passenger throughput by eliminating unneeded stops that occur on a fixed-schedule system (like traffic lights), increasing the average vehicle speed. Standard Dutch police cars often have the text bar incorporated in the light bar, vans and motorcycles usually have a separate sign on the front of the vehicle. Separately-mounted external lightbars on ambulances are rare, used just on doctor's cars and older vans. Red and blue (including darker blue) is used by fire trucks, civil defense vehicles, SMART and MAQIS vehicles, the immigration department and a limited amount of hearse vans. In 2017, the Supreme Court of India issued a ban on the use of all types of beacon lights on vehicles, except for emergency services such as ambulances, fire trucks, and police vehicles, which can use multi-colored lights on vehicles. In rare instances, some older police vehicles also have red and amber lights on the lightbar, to catch traffic attention or to act as a traffic advisor. That would have scared the bejeezus out of me. Police cruisers usually have a lightbar similar to that of German units (Hella 3) with red and blue lights (red on right, like on ambulances), a blue flash behind the windscreen, and additional blue flash lights in the grill.
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