Parking lights

[JM]

lyonspride said:

Bigends said:

lyonspride said:

In a headlight unit the light from the bulb is directed and reflected toward the road, so where do you think the light goes when you shine your headlights into it from out front?

...and the big car shaped thing between the headlamps - is that not visible?

I can't tell if your serious or not........... The front of an unlit vehicle on a dark road is actually very hard to see.

Even when your headlights are illuminating it?

[FiF]

JM said:

lyonspride said:

Bigends said:

lyonspride said:

In a headlight unit the light from the bulb is directed and reflected toward the road, so where do you think the light goes when you shine your headlights into it from out front?

...and the big car shaped thing between the headlamps - is that not visible?

I can't tell if your serious or not........... The front of an unlit vehicle on a dark road is actually very hard to see.

Even when your headlights are illuminating it?

If I may just insert a comment here.

A vehicle parked on the wrong side of an unlit road, where there is oncoming traffic so own lights on dip and possible glare from oncoming, that would be harder to see than something with reflectors.

Was reminded of this thread the other evening when encountered exactly that, a black vehicle parked the wrong way at night, the first thing seen was my lights illuminating the headlight units, which provided some reflection, but not as much as proper reflectors.

Imo the regs miss a trick in permitting vehicles to park at night in 30s without lights. Suspect that it is assumed that a 30 will automatically be a road with a system of street lighting, these days that is not always the case in rural areas with deliberately lowered limits. It was such a road that I was on earlier.