On 24/01/2020 08:34, NY wrote:
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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My Mustang doesn't have reversing lights and this is quite legal as it
wasn't made a requirement until quite recently......

I remember going to pick up my sister from a party which was down a long
unlit farm track. I was in my mum's car which was old enough that it
didn't have reversing lights or rear fog lights. When I got to the end
of the road there was nowhere to turn round. With only the tail lights
for illumination, I had to reverse what seemed like a very long way
along a narrow twisty lane until I eventually found a gateway where I
could turn. The car was so underpowered that it needed my foot on the
throttle all the time I was reversing, otherwise I'd have pressed the
footbrake just far enough to put on the brighter brake lights.

Nowadays we take reversing lights as standard and we rely on them - even
if they are a single anaemic glow-worm of light, as on my present car.
can't say I have ever had reversing lights that were any good for seeing
were you were reversing.....