NY wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message


I wonder how long it will be before the French authorities decide that all
the drivers who grew up with prioirté a droit have died out, so signs
countermanding that previous convention are no longer necessary.

Does France still mandate the use of those horrible yellow headlights, which
required non-French visitors to paint their headlamps with yellow paint,
under pain of causing French drivers to have apoplectic fits if they
encounter a car with white (tungsten or HID) headlights?




Not since 1993 though you may still find the odd vehicle from before then
fitted with them.
It was the dastardly EU that told them to conform and not allow yellow for
new vehicles after that year.

There was is a school of thought that yellow wasnt as dazzling though the
French are alleged to have introduced them to identify home vehicles from
foreign ones.

What ever the reason before that date travelling in France at night was a
bit strange with a yellow gloom
everywhere with sodium road lighting and the yellow vehicle lights.

GH