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"SpamTrapSeeSig" wrote in message
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Blame Volvo and the EU: one introduced them, the other mandated
them.
I doubt there's a shred of evidence that high-mounted central brake
lights are a net safety improvement.


As a sound engineer and anti EU person, you are of course entitled to
your opinion....

Indeed so. But I don't let dogma get in the way of facts.

The escalating 'arms race' of vehicle lighting is down to EU regulation,
which has recently also mandated the use of permanent dipped headlights
(IIRC on all vehicles made after 2010 or 2012). Statistically speaking,
one effect of this will be to increase motorcyclist fatalities, or so
we're told, not to mention energy waste, etc.

These are the same chappies that mandated 'low energy' lightbulbs.

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