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From: dan@digi-g.UUCP (Dan Messinger)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: parking light law question
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 10:08:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 10:08:43 1984
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>  Regarding the various state laws on headlight or parking/running light use:

>  Does any state FORBID the use of headlights in daylight? Or do they all 
>  ignore daylight use and merely mandate use in some definition of darkness?
>  I ask because I am convinced that it is an unsafe practice to use 
>  headlights when they are not necessary, yet I have often heard of
>  many organizations asking motorists to drive with their headlights on
>  durning the day to commemorate or call attention to some event or
>  occasion.

I thought that it was a law (in some states, at least) that motorcycles and
buses must have their headlights on at all times.

>  Maybe this is based on long-obsolete auto technology, but I always
>  believed that your battery did not charge (or charged very little)
>  when your headlights were on, so that extensive driving with the
>  headlights always on would drain the battery.

If driving with your headlights on drains your battery, I suggest that you
get a new regulator.

Dan Messinger
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