99 year old on wrong side of road and no headlights in RV

romore wrote:
Driver education and proper screening are the only ways to reduce the number of such tragedies. DRL's have been mandatory on new vehicles sold in Canada since 1989 but they are not fool proof. Too many people rely on them for night driving forgetting that the tail lights are not on. We have drivers who resent government interference disabling them by pulling the fuse. Every time something is made idiot proof a better idiot comes along.

I really liked the headlight control on a 2006 Impala I owned. It was the familiar knob type control, but it was spring loaded momentary instead of a off / auto / on type selector. You could temporarily select off or on, but the next time you powered up the car, it was back to auto and there was no way around it.

Lots of folks protesting the government in my home town, driving around with no headlights at dusk, dark and in heavy rain/snow. Very worrying.

I'd be fine with the govt hard wiring headlights direct to the ignition.