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Barry VK2AAB wrote:-
> What I think Lionel mistook is that the the previous correspondance a
> VK3 was refering to daylight driving. Lionel was refering to driving at >
night on parking lights
only.
Hi Barry,
No, I was referring to daylight driving but in poor light or weather
conditions.
There was a time when most motorists here in the UK were very slow to light up
when it was gloomy or murky.
I think it might have been the influx of Volvo cars, with at least some
reasonable degree of permanent lights on whenever they were being driven, due
to design, that gradually changed this appalling habit of driving around
almost unseen.
It's even possible now to see the occasional motorist with headlights on in
bright sunshine and it's not frowned upon. As do most sensible motor cyclists.
As for leaving lights on when vacating a car, my last two have had an audible
warning to remind me to turn them off.
In our local Shopping Precinct mainly dedicated to pedestrians, the buses pass
through and they always have lights on as a regulation.
So things have got better.
What does sometimes happen is for motorists to forget to turn lights on after
parking. Here in the UK it's generally not required to park with any lights in
towns and cities, provided the street lighting is evident. Which it usually
is.
Although, a blind eye is taken with cars parked in residential streets where
often the street lights go out after midnight. This doesn't happen so much
since most street lighting is now controlled by photo-electric sensors.
In the days gone by they had clock timers which needed altering. When the
change over from BST to GMT happened this left some roads with a period of
darkness for a few days till they were corrected.
On reflection, perhaps some of our UK drivers were driving during WW2 when we
didn't have street lights and those on cars were made to have only a glimmer
by the use of various devices. Like sticking hoods over them and bits of tape.
;-)
Even hand torches sometimes had tissue paper stuck to the glass. Memories of
"Put that light out!"
73 - Lionel, G6HXW @ GB7IPW-2
Message timed: 14:53 on 2004-Aug-13
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