On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:20:08 -0400, Dan
> wrote:

>I also leave my lights on all the time. Following shutting off the
>engine, the lights turn off automatically when I open the door (2003
>Mitsu). Even if I left them in the high beam position, when the car
>re-starts they turn on in low beam, probably the case with most newer
>cars. If the automatics are re-illuminating in high beam, it's bad
>design. Automatic dimming is also a possibility. Would it be great if
>the human moron quotient weren't so high, and people just took such
>things seriously? Of course, but such is not the case.
>
>The idiots who tick me off even more than the high-beam-in-your-face
>pinheads are the ones who drive at what they consider "dusk" and other
>low-light conditions with their parking lights on. PARKING lights.
>PARKING. Get it???
in france, in the city, that's what they do. actually, i found it
better. no bright lights in your face. as with bicycles, there
is a difference betwen "seeing" and "being seen". here
in North America we have dumbed down this point
so far that we now have DRL.
....thehick