XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:35:23 -0500, [email protected] (Hactar) wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
S. Checker <[email protected]> wrote:

Greg Goss <[email protected]> wrote:

Normally Canada follows the US on car design regulations. But in the
eighties it became mandatory to have a bright lights facing forward
whenever the car is on. Most cars just use the regular low beams.
Some (I hate 'em) use the high beams at slightly lower brightness.
Others have bright yellow or special-purpose lights bright enough to
qualify. (Audi has myriad shapes and patterns of white LEDs on
various cars).

Since our car industries are so tightly linked, I'm surprised that a
rule like this has been in place for a quarter century in one country
and ignored in the other.

This is a pisser for me - our Chrysler minivan, which of course is also
sold in Canadia, doesn't have daylight running lights (DRL), which I
would be OK with, and doesn't have the headlights go on and off with
the ignition, which my Subaru does. So I did some searching to see if
there was a setting I could change to enable DRL, and found that the
only way to enable it is to tell the onboard computer that the car was
sold in Canada.

Is there a reason you can't do that?

He'd have to fill it with liters of gas instead of gallons, drive much more politely, and the satnav would start talking with a funny accent.

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