Turn Indicator Colour

Simple Question:
what is the best colour for the turn indicator on vehicles?

I was used to seeing vehicles which had orange coloured lights for turn indicators and red coloured lights for brake light and tail light.

But now I see and get irritated by turn indicators which are ALSO red in colour! Isn't it better not to confuse the driver behind and simply keep the colours separate?

Worse than this is, the concept of using the brake light itself as a turn indicator!!! At least once I almost FAILED to notice that the car in front of me was signaling to turn since in that car, one of the brake lights turns into a flashing light (to indicate the 'turn') while the other remains a solid red.

I am not sure how much research has gone into this GREAT IDEA!!!!!!

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Credit Card Number Input - Web Design

We shop on the internet very often (though there are some who fear online shopping yet). Atleast I do shop often.

And everytime I shop (or even pay bills online) I get irritated with the web design for accepting the credit card expiration date details. All of my credit cards state the expiration year using numbers only. E.g.: 05/02 standing for the fifth month in 2002. But almost everywhere (online shops, online bill payment web sites) I am asked to enter the name of the month when my card is due to expire.

This is reason for irritation to me, since I now have to covert the number to the month name and I am not too fast at that!! I wonder if this irritates other net users too or is it that I am growing old and lazy ?

WHY, WHY do online web forms need to know the name of the month when credit cards display the month's number?

I can't understand the rational for this design!

I was happy to note that meritime.com, an online shop, provided the shopper with a drop down list which stated the name of the month and also the number, e.g.: Feb (2), Mar(3).

Simple and nice design !

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