Paging Daniel Stern - amber turn signals

Ulf, you've misquoted me. Proper attribution, please.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Ulf wrote:

> Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, N8N wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I don't think I'm missing the point. White is not a legal turn signal
> >>>color anywhere. Ergo - must have two amber turn signal lights in the
> >>>front.
>
> You're wrong. I know my local lighting regulations, and having white
> front turn signals on my Camaro is legal. Besides, from a safety
> standpoint, which is best; having amber DRLs or white turn signals?
>
> >>>In the US, there are two options for passenger car turn signals.
> >>>1) Two amber in the front and two amber in the rear.
> >>>2) Two amber in the front and two red in the rear.
>
> Sure, when the car was sold new.
>
> >
> >
> >>The wrinkle is that the front *parking lights* which are almost always
> >>combined with the turn signals, may be white or amber.
> >
> >
> > That is not the wrinkle at all. That has, in fact, nothing to do with the
> > color of front turn signals.
> >
> > Ulf is right(!) on this one. I did explain it in a previous post.
>
> I've been right the whole time. The thing is that you don't have the
> slightest clue what my local regulations say. All you do is cite the
> Federal and ECE regs.
>
> >
> >
> >>Other than very
> >>recent cars, I can only think of one example of white parking lights
> >>being used (VW Corrado)
> >
> >
> > Audi 200
> > Volvo 122
> > Volvo 140
> > Toyota Camry through '95, and numerous other Toyotas
> > Several Nissans
> > Several different Hondas and Acuras
> > Subaru Impreza through '01
> > ...
>
> Doesn't almost a majority of the European cars have white parking lights
> now?
>
> >
> Ulf
>