PeterE wrote:TripleS wrote:I do not want to see all cars running around with headlights or DRL on all the time.
Well, before long you will, as DRLs will soon become standard on all new cars - and are already seen on new VW Golfs and Polos
Assuming you are right, and that all manufacturers will incorporate that infernal system into their cars, I can only hope that a lot of owners will be doing some wire snipping, or will stop buying new cars - at least for a period of a year or two, until the manufacturers get the message that we don't want all this crap. The vast majority of people could easily do this were they to be so minded.
The majority of people will accept the principle that governments tell the manufacturers what technical rules they have to comply with, and the people then have no alternative but to accept the products that result from this process if they want a new vehicle; but it need not be this way. Very few people
need to buy a new vehicle now, or in the immediate future, so this could be done, and it would bring some of these pests into line PDQ.
On a completely different subject on PH recently, somebody referred to the critical mass phenomenon whereby a level of support for, or opposition to, something suddenly reaches a point when a great many people get behind it and unstoppable forces get deployed. The way governments and some large businesses are now operating I think we need to see some of that.
Best wishes all,
Dave.