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So OK during daylight hours then?

That’s how I understand the new regs now, but as soon as I heard about them the first thing that I thought was there is going to be a lot more rear end shunts as cars suddenly slow and stop in the main road while signalling to turn left and the following vehicle just thought they were going to turn in and keep going, and yes I know people will say “ah but if they were driving observantly it shouldn’t happen”…..well that’s not the world most people live in.

If Hornby had their wits about them they could have released quite a few different Locos/train packs under the banner of “Famous Trains on Film” and included the Lion and wagons without so many ripples in the pond.

Auto wipers rely on the diffraction of light through water droplets on the screen, it should not (and when we tested ours it was one of the criteria that it should comply with) be triggered by dirt or bugs on the screen, of course this is not to say other manufacturers don’t alloy the same rules. I believe it is illegal to drive on sidelights (parking marker lights as is their correct name) alone. edit: apparently it is legal as long as your in a 30mph area and it is well lit. Auto dipping lights are exactly as you say, I’ve not found any that I think I can rely on.

But you can buy two pots in the US via Amazon for $16……… https://www.amazon.com/2-ounce-NO-OX-ID-Special-Electrical-Contact/dp/B06Y6JSCZ3/ref=sr_1_3?crid=WT9IRXY44DUP&keywords=no-ox-id&qid=1642421330&sprefix=No-ox%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-3

Hornby could actually leap ahead and make the 4 pin coupler connection digital with a built in purpose made decoder for the lighting and maybe a horn speaker in each driving car and even controlling passenger lighting in other cars all controlled from a main sound decoder in the motor car…….dream on I hear you say?

And play trains at the same time…….now that has to be good for your health……both types

That I find incredible, it’s like saying only use the wipers when you cannot see through the windscreen not while it is light drizzle.

Awww, you preempted my eyesight quip

We’ve got them nesting in the shrubbery (actually just a load of undergrowth but shrubbery sounds posher) I really never appreciated how beautiful the iridescent feathers on these birds were until they are a few feet away, but their beaks hurt if you let them feed from your hand, I’ve not made that mistake again

And I still have some in the loft……not sure they like sharing with the Roman Legions though, a bit confusing for them

Maybe not perfect but quite impressive and as a general public exhibition piece probably as perfect as it needed to be.

Shhh don’t tell them that………….they still haven’t worked that one out

You can keep one in the freezer…..

Or so many bodies…..

That should be an impossible situation as the legislation dictates a certain angle of view, and for front indicator it is very wide…..I can’t quote chapter and verse anymore as been retired 9 years but I used to have to record the tests when the TUV and DoT over saw the procedure for sign off. Although impossible is to certain a word, better make it most unlikely

I must admit most systems I have experienced have been a bit hit and Miss but we have been pleasantly surprised by the i3 auto wipe as once set and without intervention performed perfectly, but oddly we had a loan 3 series when the i3 was in for service and you’d think it was a completely different system as it was useless!

It is true the technology is getting better all the time, I think presently Mercedes with their multi beam headlamp tech to be a good system and fast as well. But too many just use an older tech sensor type and it’s just slow.

We were playing with infra Red night sight technology on Jaguars as part of the Prometheus project with the EU back in the 90’s……it wasn’t very good back then as we were using a very cheap version of a military type system. The systems now are very good but I believe it still takes your concentration of the actual road you CAN see, I’d rather have decent lights than rely on the thing I might hit being infra-reflective…….somebody in a survival foil blanket won’t be

Yes it is legal, and the rest of your post really reinforces my post, I have not seen an auto dip that satisfies me as being fast enough to either dip or revert to main beam.

What if you’re coming the other way? How could you not see the right hand mirror of a car coming towards you on a mini roundabout? Unless I have misunderstood your post?

It is legislation to have side repeaters, it is just now they tend to be within the side mirrors rather than the front fender side (sorry Americanism). And not just Ford, just about every car now has them incorporated with the mirror housing, as I said it is cheaper and still passes legislation, in fact it could be argued it is a better position as most can also be seen from an oncoming vehicle as well, thus if the front DI fails there is still a forward facing DI working.

I can see exactly what he is saying “just move the sacks over there before 10:15” And the answer was……..

Very true, a case of crying Wolf….sort of.

Good idea to have auto lights then?