Are Headlight Laws Becoming Nonsensical OR Are Do The Lights Serve As Helpful Reminders?

It’s probably the same every British winter, but the one we’re in the middle of now has been like watching a live Coldplay concert on loop – a perpetual festival of dreariness.

Driving 70 miles to work and then back again every day in the dark/rain/fog/sleet/snow  (perm any three from five) certainly concentrates the mind. It also increases the rage, because driving standards in this country seem to be tumbling by the day.

Middle/outside lane hoggers. Grrrr. Mobile phone users. Arrrgh! My current bug bear is drivers who only switch on their headlights when absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s because I have a child now, but you can guarantee that the decrepit council charabanc up your backside is <sans lit>. And this despite the hordes of schoolkids scurrying across the nation’s High Streets to grab an Egg McMuffin before assembly....


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100tnega - 12/31/2009 2:21:30 PM

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That, and those who are too lazy to properly remove the snow from the cars and drive with covered head and taillights. These morons should be drug out of their car and beaten within a inch of their crappy little lives.

KZ258 - 12/31/2009 7:04:38 PM

+2 Boost

i agree completely

Bmw8ter - 12/31/2009 4:30:29 PM

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How about the idiots that drive everywhere with their high-beams on? I can overlook high-beam xenons; they're not too bad. But when a I see people with the custom superhot HIDs at full tilt, I want to slam right into them just to shut them off.

KZ258 - 12/31/2009 7:05:00 PM

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"But when a I see people with the custom superhot HIDs at full tilt, I want to slam right into them just to shut them off."

LOL

M53R - 1/2/2010 1:06:54 PM

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In my country, Lebanon, everybody does that. When I go there every summer, I run out of swear words. Who needs high beams on a highway full of cars?! But I guess they are used to it now.

XYZZ - 1/2/2010 7:27:14 AM

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the obvious answer is cars with AUTOMATIC HEADLIGHTS. always on when the engine is on. and off when the engine is shut down.

that said, before i got such a vehicle, i tended to not overuse my lights either. too bad it's illegal, but i think the ideal was/is to run with parking lights in marginal conditions. then, when you NEED TO ENSURE someone sees you, your flicking from parking to headlights (low OR high beams), REALLY GRABS ATTENTION.