Meet the dumbest blinker in New Jersey

Check out the MINI Cooper Countryman. I’m sure it’ll be fun to drive. I’m sure it has some amazing features. But I noticed something strange when one was in front of me in traffic recently. Please let me know if you notice the same thing.

First of all, here you can see what the backend looks like.

I’m not a car designer and I’m not sure what they were going for here. Did they want a half starburst design? An ancient hieroglyph? Not sure. But does anyone see this as an inherent problem?

NO? See when the right turn signal comes on.

So these three lines that make up this indicator. How does it look? An arrow, right? Even if that’s not their intention (and again, I have no idea what was intended), I think most people will view this arrangement as an arrow. So if this looks like an arrow to us, what direction is it pointing?

Exactly. Turn right with a right turn signal that resembles a left turn arrow.

For fun, let’s try something different!

Let’s go! Left turn signal that resembles an arrow turning right.

I’m not saying there will be a massacre on the highways with everyone misunderstanding the signal. Just saying that someone who only partially pays attention will sooner or later be confused. I just want to say that I don’t know why they design a turn signal that resembles an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of the curve.

The funny thing is that the person driving this car may have no idea that they look like that. After all, when you buy a car, do you really pay attention to the turn signals? No, you drive a car from the inside and don’t look at things like that. Even funnier: What if this is the only thing like this? What if all the other MINI Cooper Countrymans had their arrow lights pointing in the right direction and this was just the result of a man on the assembly line recovering from a bachelor party the night before?