EU wants cars to have headlights on even during the day.


Curiosity
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Cartoons

I'm Lucy ! I should really be PigPen from an old one I used to read when I was a kid.... but PigPen was a boy character.
 
Blackleaf
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Quote: Originally Posted by missile

Britain: get with the times & start driving the way the rest of the planet does.

The following countries drive on the left -

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan
Botswana
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
Fiji
Grenada
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Lesotho
Macao
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
New Zealand
Papua
Seychelles
Singapore
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St. Christopher
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Suriname
Swaziland
Tanzania
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
United Kingdom
Zambia
Zimbabwe
 
Blackleaf
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WHY IN BRITAIN DO WE DRIVE ON THE LEFT?
About a quarter of the world drives on the left.






This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; however, there is a perfectly good reason.

Up to the late 1700's, everybody travelled on the left side of the road because it's the sensible option for feudal, violent societies of mostly right-handed people.

Jousting knights with their lances under their right arm naturally passed on each other's right, and if you passed a stranger on the road you walked on the left to ensure that your protective sword arm was between yourself and him.

Revolutionary France, however, overturned this practice as part of its sweeping social rethink. A change was carried out all over continental Europe by Napoleon.The reason it changed under Napoleon was because he was left handed his armies had to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and any opponent.

From then on, any part of the world which was at some time part of the British Empire was thus left hand and any part colonised by the French was right hand.

In America, the French colonised the southern states (Louisiana for instance) and the Canadian east coast (Quebec). The Dutch colonised New York (or New Amsterdam). The Spanish and Portugese colonised the southern Americas. So The British were a minority in shaping the 'traffic'.

The drive-on-the-right policy was adopted by the USA, which was anxious to cast off all remaining links with its British colonial past

Once America drove on the right, left-side driving was ultimately doomed. If you wanted a good reliable vehicle, you bought American, for a period they only manufactured right-hand-drive cars.

From then on many countries changed out of necessity.

Today, the EC would like Britain to fall into line with the rest of Europe, but this is no longer possible. It would cost billions of pounds to change everything round.

The last European country to convert to driving on the right was Sweden in 1967. While everyone was getting used to the new system, they paid more attention and took more care, resulting in a reduction of the number of road accident casualties.

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Curiosity
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Thanks Blackleaf!

That was worth a good read! And here I thought it wuz boats!!!

Saluting you with my left!
 
I think not
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The use of daytime running lights has proven to reduce casualties. I don't think it's a dumb law.
 
JoeyB
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Quote: Originally Posted by jimmoyer

Tory transport spokesman Chris Grayling feared Brussels was seeking to 'micro-manage' the roads.

'The EU is trying to take a decision that should be taken in Britain,' he said.

'It simply isn't necessary for the EU to decide on every single rule and regulation.'

-----------------Blackleaf's article-----------------------

All of you who favor world government take note:
Such centralized power will always have
such a tendency to micromanage our lives for our
own safety and convenience.

Bring on conformity !!!

Bring it on in the name of safety and convenience !!

What's so bad about this law ?

And the next one?

It's for your own good.

Common sense.

And it becomes more imperative as we become more
urbanized.

Eventually it will be become common sense for our
own safety and welfare for someone to know where
we were are at any given second WHEN we want to
know and WHEN we want to check on them.

It's called the Buddy System.

Kinda like the Big Brother System.

We the people are the worst threat to any archaic understanding
of privacy --- not the government.

And we the people are the worst threat to any right we have
to make our own decisions under a culture of suggestion
and guidance rather than a culture of fiats, rules, regs.

Noone in their bloody right mind here in Oz uses their lights during the day. There's so much bloody glare as it is, we dont need another 300W coming straight at us.

Driving with lights on also increases the risk of having your car shot at. Just so you know.
 

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