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From: ijk@houxt.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Attention GM Owners! References: <1230@pegasus.UUCP>, <104@mhuxj.UUCP>
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 08:50:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 08:50:42 1984
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In Germany, all cars are required to have special "parking" lights
on each side.  These lights are specifically designed to be turned on
when the car is parked on streets where the streetlamps are turned off
after midnight (or some such hour).  Naturally, you don't want high
power parking lights that will drain your battery, instead you normally
get little lights (usually one on each side of the car, with a white
lense on the front half, and a red lense on the rear.  Note that these
streets are marked with special road signs.  It sounds like the Porsche
method of using turn signal to light one side was a compromise of
this requirement with esthetics.
Ihor Kinal
houxt!ijk
P.S.  My parents Mercedes has a light switch with several null positions -
apparently  they deactivate this option upon export.