Re: Daytime Running Lights

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:33:09 GMT, "Brian Minto" <mintob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Thankfully I DID receive one useful reply by contacting this group,

if your attitude is primarily one of gratitude, why not stop here?

>so I replaced my module and they are working just fine. The gentleman
responded 
>to the
>question by email. I found it interesting how the other responders got
off
>onto any odd tangent to the question. The wear and tear on your
>headlights? - rather silly notion compared to your life. 

i don't know why you drive a miata, but *i* would expect that a
typical regular in this group likes to take advantage of the inherent
"s****tniess" in the way the car was designed and engineered and drive
the vehicle in a way that takes advantage of that - which is an
potenitally dangerous action. so it should be a given that ultimate
safety, while im****tant, is not necessarily the highest priority; we'd
all probably be driving volvos instead. 

>By the way, I just
>upgraded my original lights with Hella lights because I wanted better 
>headlights, but the original lights were working perfectly. And yes, I am
sure that they 
>were the original headlights. Perhaps the rest of the world actually is
wrong, but the US is
>probably the only developed country that does not require Daytime Running
>Lights due to the added safety. DRL's cause an immediate and substantial
>reduction in traffic accidents - period. But wow, maybe it really is just
>another government conspiracy.

i would hope that your drunk driving laws are a lot harsher than ours,
which are a joke. i suspect that  DWI/DUI probably cause more
accidents than not having DRLs.





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