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This is probably country/region specific but my car (Tesla) illuminates the brake lights when it detects a certain level of deceleration. Also my work vehicles (Volvo V90 CrossCountry and XC60) do this. Finland/Sweden in my case. My car also flash the hazards when it detects hard braking and I've seen quite many euro cars do this. I agree that this should be standard.
Activating the hazards when hard breaking is also just common practice to do manually (at least in western Europe)