Re: [DML] Re: Headlight Switch / Signaling with your lights

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

In the UK/Ireland, flashing lights usually means "you first" or equivalent - ie an "okay
by me" signal.

If someone pulls out in front of me, I too give a long high-beam "glare". You can also
flash to say "thanks" but it winds me up when people do this in the dark because it
blinds the person you're thanking! What I do is switch off and switch on dipped beam,
though it's difficult to do in the DeLorean. Both my citroens' headlight switches are
rotary knobs on the tip of the indicator stalk, making a quick off/on very easy.

In France, and on the continent, flashing means "me first", and in Egypt, they don't use
headlights at all except by flashing to say "i'm heading towards you" from a distance,
otherwise only using sidelights. It's a very strange experience being in a car in egypt
at night!

Martin
#1458

Jan van de Wouw wrote:

> --- In dmcnews, Robert wrote:
> > Hmm, that's odd. I was always told that flashing your lights
> > was aggressive, and blacking them out was passive.
>
> I hadn't thought of it like that, but personally I see one or two
> SHORT flashes as a courtesy signal, a LONG, un interupted
> flash on the high beams is to warn someone on a dangerous
> manouver.

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