Why Do the Tail Lights Stay On After the Car Is Turned Off?
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If the tail lights remain on after the car is turned off, it is due to the "Follow Me Home" feature. Under normal circumstances, the lighting delay of this feature does not exceed 5 minutes, and it does not depend on the lighting state before the car was turned off. Instead, it follows a fixed lighting pattern. Regardless of the position of the lighting switch before the car was turned off, the Follow Me Home feature will default to turning off the high beams and daytime running lights, only keeping the low beams on. Depending on the vehicle model, the definition may vary. For most Chinese-market models, the Follow Me Home feature defaults to illuminating both headlights while turning off the tail lights. However, for some Korean-made vehicles, both headlights and tail lights may remain on simultaneously. Apart from the Follow Me Home feature, there is another less common scenario where the headlights turn off normally, but the tail lights stay on persistently or only one tail light remains lit while all other lights are off. This is also a normal phenomenon, known as the parking light. The parking light was originally a mandatory regulation in certain U.S. states, requiring all vehicles to keep their tail lights on after being parked and turned off at night to alert pedestrians or other vehicles in areas without street lighting.
