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“DEAR Shaun. I
always read and enjoy
your column in the
North Shove News,
Whenever I am out dri-
ving and witness some
foolish act committed
behind the wheel, your
collection of articles on
‘boneheads’ comes to
mind.”

So reads a wonderful let-
ter from West Vancouver resi-
dent Hugh Mutien, avid
Signals reader, and obviously
a man with good taste.

Hugh’s letter continues
with an observation which
has never really been covered
in this column, which is sur-
prising because of the num-
ber of columns with repeat-
themes over the last four and
a half years.

Finally, something new
under the sun...

“There is one act of
annoyance I wish to share,”
continues Hugh, “and offer
up for comment, and ir is the
use of fog lights.

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Conlin

signals

“When | learned to drive
30-plus years ago, fog lights
were for ase during reduced
visibility in fog or heavy
snow.

“The reasoning behind
the fog light is the flat wide
design of the beam, which
scatters almost no light above
the hood of the car, thereby
not ikuninating fog droplets
or snow! flakes dirce cdy in front
of the driver’s line of vision,

“Nowadays many people
seem to think fog lights are a
status symbol or boost to
one's self esteem and drive
with thent turned on even on
a sunny day. When someone
uses fog lights as extra low-

‘lights?

in the dark
ips

of low-beams only, and this
creates considerable increased
glare for an oncoming driver.

“Come on, all you bone-
heads, wake up and turn off
the excess lights.”

Well said, Hugh. And a
good point. Hugh seems to
have written this column for
me save for a final paragraph
which posed a question:
“Now, Shaun,” he writes,
“what does the Motor
Vehicle Act say about the use
of these popular accessory
“Darn, Now [actually
have to do some work,

As it turns our, the
mighty MVA has nothing to
say on the mateer; we must
refer to B.C.’s Regulations
which do not actually forbid
the use of both fog gehts and
headlights at the same time,
which is why overly-illumi-
nated boneheads continue to
be overly-illuminated bone-
heads.

Interestingly, the Regs do
state that fog lamps must be
hooked into vou tail lamp
assembly, which is reasonable

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