Re: [ST] UK lightswitch

["Tim Boardman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the world drives on the right hand side! We did conalise it after
all!
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Knowles <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ST] UK lightswitch


> >If the UK light switch is on the right side, what's on the left where the
US
> >light switch is?  Kill switch?  That's more weird than riding on the
wrong
> >side of the road. ;-)
>
> The left switch is the same everywhere except for what we call the
high/low
> beam switch they call the dip switch or some such thing. Performs the same
> function. However over on the right, the UK (and other areas?) get a
switch
> that you can use to actually turn the headlight on and off, where as in
the
> US the law requires that they automatically go on, so we get a plastic
> cover where that switch would be located.
>
> So our law says we have to have lights on at all times, but you can have
> two of them lit at the same time.
>
> Their law says you can only have one light lit at a time, but you can turn
> it completely off if you desire.
>
> Only politicians would make sense out of either law.
>
> Matt Knowles
> Aesthetic Design & Photography - www.aestheticdesign.com - (707) 786-4643
>
>
>
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