OT Idiot lights-out drivers

That would be me. I use sidelights in a streetlit area at night. And do you know what? Never been pulled over for it. Dipped lights are for you to see. You do not need a bright light to see the light. You use bright lights to illuminate other objects.

Why are you equating brightness with time?

I've got eyes. If you don't, get someone else to drive for you.

Speak for yourself. How do you manage when you go out for a walk, do you need to use a torch?

I wonder how much good they were going 110 mph? I'd be more worried about traction and hydroplaning! ack!

I guess you don't drive with your lights on all the time then?

Says the person who cannot see an object which doesn't have bulbs all over it.

I'm a photographer, I know all about contrast and apertures, so shut up until you have a clue please.

Says the person using mobile phone speak.

Says the person who doesn't know the difference between her name and her email address.

That would be because I can see them without lights all over them, just like I can see other cars without lights all over them.

Again, why do you want the front of cars lit up but not the back?

You are talking about "a streetlit area." I was taking about UNlit areas.

Perce

If a bulb is out, the flashing rate changes telling driver to check them.

Per Mr Macaw:

Balance of Power: workers are not standing up for themselves, so the additional profits float up to the top.

That is why when you pick up the new car, you have to spend some time with delivery specialist(usually young kids) asking any questions about this new gadgets. Not everything is in the manual.

Per Ed Pawlowski:

In my experience, the German standard for a similar job is much higher.

But this is a subjective judgment.

Last time I priced them (a loooooong time ago) a pair of Nikes that cost, say, $50 USD were more like $150 in Germany.... and people there drive much, much smaller automobiles.....

OTOH, that has to be weighed against 6 weeks of vacation, overtime pay for working overtime, retirement at full pay, medical coverage, vastly-greater literacy, and so-forth.

"You pays your money and you takes your choice".

I tell my German relatives that I'd emigrate to Germany in a heartbeat except for one problem: Too Many Germans..... i.e. It's a foreign culture and German is a infamously-difficult language to learn.

When we would walk around in towns of any size (Mainz, for instance) it was obvious when we walked into a neighborhood populated mainly by non-Germans: dog poop on the sidewalks, trash, graffiti, dirt in general....

When I was taking Latin in high school, we had to read Caesar's Gallic Wars. I remember one part where somebody was talking about the English and the Germans.

The gist was something to the effect of "Well, the English paint themselves blue and throw spears at us; but we're going to civilize them. The Germans, on the other hand, are far more civilized and developed; but we are never going to get on with them because they're just so *different*".

What's in the manual is a legal disclaimer. I'd be willing to bet that anyone at the dealer would be incapable of explaining the *real* impact of this disclosure: namely, that someone could subpoena the logs from your vehicle to determine if you were at fault in an accident, to discover who you have talked with (a la Patriot Act)

Sort of like google claiming that their tracking of your searches is to enable them to "provide a better search experience" (where "better" means "more profitable for its advertisers"!)

Europe has a different idea of the role of gummit in society. The US believes society exists so folks can exploit one and other; the europeans seem to think it exists so folks can *help* one and other.

Huge difference.

Nonsense! You just fill your mouth with olive-sized jagged stones and try to pronounce "Petter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers"

Germans, IME, tend to be highly conformist. But, that's from my observations of "german immigrants" and first descendants thereof.

If you don't have time to stop or take evasive action you can hit it. You knew that but just wanted to show off.

Or he was going 110 KPH or 68 MPH. When you look as the speedometer in Germany you usually have to translate.