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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #45 on: May 30, 2010, 03:50:53 PM »
Know someone with a car that the lights are automatically on all the time, so there's no thought involved. That's fine.

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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #46 on: May 30, 2010, 03:51:27 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #47 on: May 30, 2010, 04:39:32 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #48 on: May 31, 2010, 01:31:39 AM »
Know someone with a car that the lights are automatically on all the time, so there's no thought involved. That's fine.

All new cars in Europe are that way. I can still turn my lights off completely on my 1995 Volvo, but then I don't use the regular lights button but a tiny litte "screw" that I turn with a small screwdriver.

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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #49 on: May 31, 2010, 04:21:20 AM »
Know someone with a car that the lights are automatically on all the time, so there's no thought involved. That's fine.

All new cars in Europe are that way. I can still turn my lights off completely on my 1995 Volvo, but then I don't use the regular lights button but a tiny litte "screw" that I turn with a small screwdriver.

Right there I can see a problem for someone like me, who would lose that small screwdriver within five minutes of the last use! :laugh:
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #50 on: May 31, 2010, 07:13:41 AM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #51 on: May 31, 2010, 03:59:16 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #52 on: May 31, 2010, 05:51:26 PM »
Ah yes.  Seatbelts.  I specifically bought a 1973 Dodge Charger SE because you couldn't start the car unless the seatbelts were buckled.  See the above post about alcoholic father who if he was going to drive my car I was going to make sure he was securely buckled in so that if he had an accident with my car I could kill him.
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #53 on: May 31, 2010, 06:14:49 PM »
Ah yes.  Seatbelts.  I specifically bought a 1973 Dodge Charger SE because you couldn't start the car unless the seatbelts were buckled.  See the above post about alcoholic father who if he was going to drive my car I was going to make sure he was securely buckled in so that if he had an accident with my car I could kill him.

My brother won a 1973 Caprice and it had alarms that wouldn't stop unless you buckled up my other brother quickly disabled it  :orly:
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« Reply #54 on: May 31, 2010, 10:57:43 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:

In Sweden they were standard very early but didn't become compulsory to use before the 1970's and just in the front seat to start with. It wasn't compulsory to use seatbelts in the backseat here until 1985 or something.

It's like gun laws. Freedoms are taken away gradually, so that people won't oppose it very much.
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #55 on: June 01, 2010, 03:59:19 AM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:

Yes, I do remember that. I spent my childhood going to places without a seatbelt.
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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #56 on: June 01, 2010, 04:00:52 AM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:

In Sweden they were standard very early but didn't become compulsory to use before the 1970's and just in the front seat to start with. It wasn't compulsory to use seatbelts in the backseat here until 1985 or something.

It's like gun laws. Freedoms are taken away gradually, so that people won't oppose it very much.

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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #57 on: June 01, 2010, 12:10:50 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:

Yes, I do remember that. I spent my childhood going to places without a seatbelt.

When I was old enough to understand about seat belts, I always wore mine even if I was the only person in the car wearing one.

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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #58 on: June 01, 2010, 01:16:55 PM »
The very thing I oppose, as I usually do, is that it's compulsory. I have no problems wearing seatbelts in a plane.

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Re: DUI check points
« Reply #59 on: June 01, 2010, 02:24:32 PM »
That's the case with my car. It's a good thing.

Me too I don't miss turning them on and off.  It's such a simple thing to put on a car  don't know why all cars don't have it

It's baffling.

Remember when seatbelts  were optional, rather than standard? (I don't, but my mother mentioned it.) :chin:

Yes, I do remember that. I spent my childhood going to places without a seatbelt.

When I was old enough to understand about seat belts, I always wore mine even if I was the only person in the car wearing one.

There weren't any installed in the back seat of our car.
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