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Headlights & Windshield Wipers

Category: Lights
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Many states have laws that require drivers to turn on their headlights anytime their windshield wipers are on--the logic being that the roads are safer when drivers can better see other cars during foul weather conditions. Of course, not all drivers remember to do this.

Why not make headlights turn on automatically whenever the windshield wipers are on?

mcteeg, Feb 15 2006

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Maybe because I don't really need to have the headlights on to wash bugs & road dust from the windshield. . .

Maybe because I use Rain-X so I don't turn on the wipers when it rains but do turn on my lights . . .

Just for the record, what are the states that require this?

Hyenuf, Feb 16 2006

The United States of Europe!!

polohay, Feb 16 2006

It is really a wash (no pun intended), as many states have laws requiring lights to be on when the vehicle is operating altogether.

classicsat, Mar 08 2006

i have wondered the same thing myself for quite a while now... i hate seeing people driving in the rain with no head lights on..

tovashova, May 08 2008