For nine of the thirteen went the taillights still up and running (and dipped) in the dark, provided that ljusvredet was set in the auto mode.
the relevant brands, where VW, Kia, Toyota, BMW, Ford, Nissan, Skoda and Renault had models that lacked the auto-ignition of the backlight at all starttillfällen.
the Response rate was less good. Best-in-class among the defendant, the Volvo and the Audi – which is now, as 2014, state that their models have the automatic as standard upon delivery.
Volvo Cars press officer Annika Bjerstaf announces that ”we have light the lights ’default’ on all our cars – both the cars we are producing now, and in the ’yesterday’s cars’”.
Audi’s press contact Irene Bernald said that all Audi’s models always have the tail that lights up directly. She adds also that all have the ”headlamp washers as standard, which is no longer a requirement”.
Bernald points out that the modern led technology, with lights, which draws significantly less energy than incandescent bulbs, meant a lot for the development. She keeps up the special blinkerljus that Audi offers – ”which lights up sequentially in the direction in which you swing, which makes it clearer to perceive of the underlying road users”.
and the head of communications, responds short to the Kia Ceed, 2014 missing bakljusautomatik, today it is in the form of DRL, “attention” ”daytime running lamp” (lamp in use during the daytime). An undisclosed number of other Kiamodeller lack this feature.
Alexandra Österplan, inc., for Nissan, said that while the Nissan Qashqai comes with DRL as standard, which means that it during the daytime off, the backlight comes on automatically when the darkness comes. She points out, ”our cars meet the EU-requirements” and that ”the customer can always choose to turn on the rear lights manually”.
When this article is published, we have from the following märkesrepresentanter not received a response to our question, addressed via email to the respective press contact: Volkswagen, Toyota, BMW, Ford, Skoda and Renault.
the 2014 survey:
DN Motors earlier survey of varselljusens coupling of 20 standard models, published in October 2014 in our hard-copy version, it gave this result.
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