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One reason (from up on my soap box). Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:29:03 In Reply to: What's so hard about turning headlights off when ..., J, Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:46:28 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Sweden was the first country (I think) to demand some kind of day time driving lights.
It started out in late 70s with that we either had to drive with the head lights on or install a pair of yellow lights on the front of car that turned on automatically when the car started.
Saab was hailed as being very innovativ and smart as they pretty much already had the head light on with ignition before the law took effect in their 95-96 models just by flipping the head light switch to on.
It was a lot of angry Swedes back then with empty batteries when they forgot to turn off the headlights on "other" brands after parking their cars, especially since most cars didn't have those annoying pling-plong sounds alerting the driver that the lights were still on or key left in ignition.
I don't know how many brands using the feature with automatic head lights on/off with ignition but Volvo is one of them, but was many years after Saab in implementing that feature.
I like it. I have my headlights turned on all the time when driving but would probably forget to turn them off during the day if they didn't go out with ignition or that the car didn't have an annoying pling-plong feature.
A matter a fact is that I did forget once in awhile when I was still driving big old American cars.
Anders
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