These are the things on the front of your car that you turn on when it’s dark out. When someone flashes these at you, that means you need to turn them on.
Driving 101.

—roadkill

This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2009.

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  1. or the ever-illegal “there’s cops ahead”.

    they didn’t have day-lights on?
    I find mine are so bright, I can forget to put the night one’s on once in a while.

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  2. Not illegal, but not recommended. I remember the night I went home on that road one night with a dead alternator (I grew up in Whites Lake). Running without lights was the only way I was getting the thing home. It happens, just drive carefully around him/her and pray they don’t get into an accident.

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  3. zZz,

    “there’s cops ahead” headlight flashing is not illegal. The exact thing happened to a well known auto journalist in Toronto. They pulled him over and gave him a ticket. He fought it and won because there is no law that states that a driver cannot flick their lights to warn other drivers of hazards up ahead. Jim Kenzie blogged/bitched about it in his column here:

    http://thestar.blogs.com/kenzie/

    The police cannot just make up laws at their discretion.

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