Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: parking light law question Message-ID: <1303@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 09:37:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1303 Posted: Fri Aug 24 09:37:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 06:48:22 EDT References: <722@opus.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 Well, if you call them "parking lights", then I guess you *wouldn't* be able to understand moving with them on. What do you call the lever which activates the brakes non-hydrauliclly? Do you call it a "parking brake"? Well, then I guess you'd better only use it for parking! There are many times when running lights are the optimum. This occurs when it is dark enough that you need lights on the car so that others can see you from far enough away, but not dark enough that you can see better with your headlights on. At these times, headlights *do* often cause glare to oncoming traffic, so why have them on? Yes, you can see cars farther away with headlights on than with just the running lights on, but there is a limit to how far away it does any *real* good to see them. The increased glare is definately a baddie. Why don't you complain about the *real* problem: people running around in the dark with NO lights on, and one-eyed cars, and high-beams when not appropriate, and miss-adjusted lights, and the absurd headlight laws in the US. (At least it looks like they're *finally* going to make it legal to have real headlights. Guess GE finally figured out how to make them. (*) ) (*) An important member of the committee that was holding back decent headlights was from, guess which major manufacturer of sealed beam headlights?) -- _____ /_____\ how in blue blazes do they expect a EE to cook on a gas stove? /_______\ |___| Snoopy ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert