the automotive lamp is especially useful as a rear combination lamp having red leds serving both tail light and stop light functions as well as amber or red leds providing turn and hazard signals a center high mounted stop lamp also using an array of leds surrounded by a dark bezel with high gloss reflector shaped surfaces is used in combination with a pair of the rear combination lamps in one embodiment the rear combination lamps include side marker leds application_number US 74866003 A description referring now to fig1 there is shown an automotive vehicle 20 having a rearwardly facing area 21 on which is disposed a pair of rear combination lamps 23 a b and a center high mount stop lamp chmsl 24 the pair of rear combination lamps 23 a b and the chmsl 24 are dark in color so as to not reflect exterior light rays such as light rays 25 and 26 from an external source such as the sun 27 back to an observer 28 in a following vehicle this is because dark objects absorb rather than reflect visible light since the rear combination lamps 23 a b and chmsl 24 absorb the externally emitted light rays 25 and 26 light rays 29 and 30.