Red indicator lights.

I was driving along merrily to university yesterday afternoon (in my Nissan Micra with amber indicator lights) and in front of me was a blue Honda Civic Sport. The person driving was about to turn right and the first thing I noticed RED INDICATOR LIGHTS!!! The first thing that popped into my head was "that's very bad HCI" hence why I'm blogging about it.

Now I've been told they are pretty common in USA, however I've not been to the USA so I usually assosicate red with brake lights, so when this thing started flashing it took me a good second or 2 to realise it was indicator lights.

Personally I think that having red indicator lights are pretty hazardous, as someone especially in the UK could easily have identified them as malfunctioning break lights, hit the break and WHAM! we have ourselves a little accident.

I just don't get why they don't use amber indicator lights, they seem to make sense to me. Red indicator lights might be the norm in the US, but I just found them weird.