Path: utzoo!mnetor!perle!dave
From: dave@perle.UUCP (David LeReverend)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <566@perle.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 18:49:41 GMT
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <2097@lethe.UUCP> <774@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@perle.UUCP (David LeReverend)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Perle Systems Limited  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 33
Keywords:Headlights, Day-time, Americans

In article <774@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>
>Speaking of [driving with headlights on full time], I think the first 
>batch of cars wired for full-time driving lights are now on the [roads].
>
I've got an '88 Toyota that automatically shuts off the headlights once the 
engine is off and the driver's door has opened.  Since I leave my headlights
on whenever I'm driving, this feature saves me about 6 battery boosts per
year.

This feature also gives drivers the option of using the old-fashioned, more
dangerous practice of only turning on the headlights when they feel like it.

I've noticed that almost no drivers in the U.S. use their headlights during
the day.  They collectively spend person-years flashing their headlights 
"on" and then "off" at me.  Being a courteous driver, I cheefully flash
mine "off" and then "on" in return.  It drives 'em crazy.  

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"Gee, there must be a LOT of speed traps out tonight."
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"Au de Newark"
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Get it?  "DRIVES 'em crazy"? 
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"How come the lights go 'on', but the horn goes 'off'?"
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How do I cross-post to (w)rec(k).autos?
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All blames and flames to: 

David LeReverend (dave@perle)