From: Harry Bloomfield on
Chris Bartram presented the following explanation :
> I thought it was dumb. What's wrong with dipped headlights?

They are too bright, you cannot see very much past an approaching cars
dipped headlights. In my opinion side lights are not enough and they do
not differentiate between parked vehicles and moving vehicles, but
dipped headlights provides more light than is needed for lit built-up
areas.

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From: Chris Bartram on
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> Chris Bartram presented the following explanation :
>> I thought it was dumb. What's wrong with dipped headlights?
>
> They are too bright, you cannot see very much past an approaching cars
> dipped headlights. In my opinion side lights are not enough and they do
> not differentiate between parked vehicles and moving vehicles, but
> dipped headlights provides more light than is needed for lit built-up
> areas.
>
I'd say correctly adjusted they're OK, but I see your point, and
clearly, side lights are inadequate. Perhaps the only good thing about
my Volvo 480 was it's 21W DRLs.
From: aaa on
JNugent wrote:

> Conor wrote:
> > In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein
> > says...
> > > What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you
> > > see London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around
> > > using only 10W (?) sidelights.
> >
> > Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area. Some muppets drive
> > down NSL DCs on them though.
>
> It's lawful if the road is lit though, isn't it?
>
> You can drive on a lit motorway night with just sidelights AFAIK
> (though I always use headlights at night, whether there is
> street-lighting or not).

Do you need to use side lights, would it be legal to drive with no
lights, to help reduce fuel consumption and help save the planet :-)
From: Ian on
On 14 Dec, 19:13, dgoldst...(a)charter.net (Dermit Goldstein) wrote:
> What exactly are the rules in regard to lights?  Quite often you see
> London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only
> 10W (?) sidelights.  

It's to show they're available for hire.

Ian
From: Ray Keattch on
Dermit Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:35:03 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein
>> says...
>>> What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see
>>> London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only
>>> 10W (?) sidelights.
>> Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area.
>
> I wonder why more people don't?

I rather like to see where I'm going.

>> Some muppets drive down NSL
>> DCs on them though.
>
> Yes, I've seen that too.

I wonder what is going through their small brains? I look in my mirror
on a motorway, and notice those cars with sidelights on are almost
invisible. Surely they can look in their mirrors and notice the same thing?

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