From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.auto
Title: Re: Restrictive Headlight Laws
Article-I.D.: rabbit.722
Posted: Fri Aug 20 16:53:46 1982
Received: Sat Aug 21 05:47:58 1982
References: rabbit.721

My father once told me that when he learned to drive, it
was ILLEGAL to have your headlights on inside New York city
limits, even at night.  The presumption was that the street
lights were good enough that headlights were a liability.
I know that in driving into NY through one of the tunnels,
I always turn my headlights off in the tunnel (one is supposed
to do that), and frequently forget to turn them back on again
once in Manhattan -- the street lights are so bright that it
is difficult to see if they are on or not.

Then, on the other hand, there is Sweden, where headlights must
be on all the time your engine is running, day or night.  This
is probably because there is so much dusk in Sweden.  Cars made
in Sweden for sale there do not have headlight switches.