Chaning the color of automobile running lights?

Question

What color are Running lihgts?
What color are Brake lights?
The answer to both of those questions is red.
The only difference being in the brightness.
What would be the effect of changing the running lights to another color? Perhaps green? I think that would dramatically cut down on rear end collisions due to only a subtle change in the difference from running lights and brake lights. The turn signal is Yellow, which makes sense, because it is a warning.

I just wanted to put this out there to see what other people thought?

I am talking about the rear of the car. The part in which you follow.

The rear of the car has red lights, which are considered to be the running lights. That is mentally the meaning of "STOP". When you travel behind a car and see red, you don't stop, unless it changes to a "Brighter" red, but many times that is indistinguishable between the running lights and the brake lights.

Answer 1

actually.....running lights on the front are amber and those in the rear are red. brake lights are red for the common international law of stop. the reason brake lights light up brighter is for a warning of I AM STOPPING.

yellow is turn signals cause its caution, warning.

green would mean go...so to put "go" on the rear of a car would mentally confuse drivers.

colors are on a car for a reason and have been designed that way, not just put on cause they looked pretty. plus there are state, federal and international laws that regulate these colors.

change the color of any of these lights....and watch how fast a cop pulls you over and tickets you.

Answer 2

Well to put it simply you would be breaking the law.
Years ago people could but in what ever color you wanted but confused everyone. So the industry finely came up with something all the car makes could understand as well as anyone driving.
So the lights were standardized And we have what we have today.
What would you think would happon if say you had purple break lights and the guy behind you thought you just had cool lights in the back of your car ( WAM) and another car is ready for the junk yard.

Answer 3

Sorry, running lights are in the front and are clear, fog lights are also in the front and are usually amber. So your question is flawed. If you mean marker lights, found on some vehicles, they are only red by law if seen from the rear, amber by law if seen from the front of the sides. Some turn signals are yellow, and some are red, so that varies also.

You might want to rethink and clarify your question.