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HeyBub[_3_]

wrote:

Yea those fancy lights demanded by the designers are a real
step down. With the sealed beams you could buy an new light for a few
dollars, use a screwdriver to install it in a couple of minutes and it
was as good as new. Now ........

Why did you let the designers convince the regulators to allow
this? OK I know about the false argument of lower profile lights
allow better lighting, but if you look at cars today, few are taking
advantage of that possibility. It is time to re-establish the old
specifications.

In my state, 6% of accidents are attributed to bad road conditions (road
out, sudden sinkholes, etc.), 6% to mechanical malfunction (brake failure,
blowouts, etc.) and the remainder to driver error.

With about 14 million vehicles in my state, at about $40 per pop for a
safety inspection each year, that's $560 million to keep the accident rate
down to 6%. Maybe if we let the accident rate due to mechanical malfunction
double, we could use the money to cut in half the driver-error rate.