I seem to remember in one of the states I lived in, that it was illegal
to drive with parking lights and not the head lights on. Probably never
enforced.
So that's Kansas, California, New York, Illinois, or Minnesota.
California sticks in my head. Don't know why.
On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:21 AM, Mike Janacek wrote:
> Don't know about now or the legalities, but in the late 60's within
> city/town limits of some of the places I visited in Spain while in
> the service nobody drove at night with headlights, only parking
> lights. The cities/towns were well lighted though. Narrow streets
> with blind intersections required flashing of the headlights also.
> Some intersections had convex mirrors on the corner of the buildings.
> Mike
> '79B
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Erickson"
> <eric@erickson.on.net>
> To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: LED lights
>
>
>> On 05/10/2006, at 11:48 PM, Barrie Robinson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> One of the things that puzzle me about Canada is that parking
>>> lights are never used. Legally you have no need to leave your
>>> parking lights on !! To me that is nuts !
>>>
>>
>> Barry,I
>>
>> It is the same in Australia - you may choose to leave your
>> parking lights on if you think you are parked in a way that
>> people may not see your car. But few people do because they don't
>> want to flatten their battery!
>>
>> There is no LEGAL requirement to ever use your parking lights.
>>
Paul Root
ptroot@iaces.com
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