"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, James C. Reeves wrote:
>
>> It used to be illegal in most (maybe all) state laws to drive with the
>> brights on in traffic.
>
> It's illegal in most (maybe all) states to do a lot of **** that a lot of
> people do in most (maybe all) states.
>

True...but that snippet of my post was a lead-up to the main point. NHTSA
rules allowing high beams to be suitable as DRLs effectively trumped that
law. From my perspective, it essentially made driving around with the high
beams illuminated legal (or at least made the law somewhat ambiguous to make
enforcement difficult). The definition of "on" isn't defined. Half output
as used in a typical DRL mean on? Or, does only full output mean "on"?
Since the lay only differentiates on or off and highbeam DRL's are
legal.....how to enforce the laws making "old" full bright brights illegal?!