re: Daytime Running Lights

[Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu>]

>>I agree with Bob 100% on this issue: using DRLs to solve the problem of
>>drivers not paying attention is the wrong solution.

>Um, I'd agree about the problem, but not about your solution. With all the
>braindead drivers out there, *we* need all the help we can get to stay out
>of their way. I'll take every active precaution I can to avoid them, but if
>getting their attention with my headlights gives me another 5% margin of
>safety, I'll take it...

Ah! Why settle for 5% increase in margin of safety, when you can settle
for 200% (or more!) by petitioning change on what and how people need to
do/pass to get their driver's license? I see many "back route"
solutions... Like the most infamous one -- like govt's ever stingent
emission laws on new vehicle -- when the source of the problem is those
old clunkers on the road that are (frankly) not likely to be replaced with
new cars soon.

What's next? Horns that will hunk every 5 seconds after poeple are pretty
much conditioned with these DRLs? And next? Government requires car
manufactuers to paint the car in neon, glow-in-the-dark paint? (Hmmm...
which I recall, that long time ago MB did found that orange-painted models
has the least accident rate of all car colors...)

Why not go to the source of the problem -- namely, not letting "lamers" to
pass and hold driver's license -- and get it over with?

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