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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!pakar
- From: pakar@jyu.fi (Petri A Karonen)
- Subject: Re: Carlights in Norway
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.233615.24973@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- References: <audunds.1.727890513@dhhalden.no> <1993Jan24.173708.21679@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:36:15 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan24.173708.21679@julian.uwo.ca> morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton) writes:
- >In article <audunds.1.727890513@dhhalden.no> audunds@dhhalden.no (AUDUN DJUV STIANSEN) writes:
- >> In my (and many others) opinion, driving with the lights on all day
- >>and night, summer and winter is the best solution. It helps a lot if you
- >>for example meet a car, and you have the sun right into your eyes, and as
- >>usual, a very dirty and scratched front-screen. I guess you know how it's
- >>like. The same rules are in practise in Sweden and a lot of other North-
- >>European contries. I don't know how things are in USA, but I guess there are
- >>different rules in different states.
- >
- >We have the same system in Canada, and you're right, it really is the best
- >solution. All new cars have had to have daytime running lights since November,
- >1989, and when I drive a car that doesn't have automatic lights, I turn them
- >on myself.
- >
- >-- Brent
- >morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca
- >
-
- In the German autobahns it is strictly forbidden to use headlights
- during daylight. I think one reason for this is to make braking lights
- more visible. When driving 250kph it is very useful to see as quickly
- as possible if somebody is braking in front of you!
- Using headlights in daylight is useful only on two-lane roads where the
- lights help to see the oncoming traffic, on multi-lane freeways they are
- useless and even dangerous.
-
- Pete
-
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