A question, dear bloggers and fellow road-users…

Please tell me…

When driving in conditions of mist, rain, dusk or dawn, do you:
(a.) Squint through the murk and continue intrepidly on your way.
(b.) Put on your parking lights, squint through the murk and continue intrepidly on your way.
(c.) Put on your headlights, squint through the murk and continue intrepidly on your way.

If you answered (a.) or (b.):
1. With which of the following statements would you agree?
(a.) Oncoming cars with their headlights on are more visible.
(b.) Oncoming cars with their parking lights on only become visible when they are approximately 5 meters away and then only barely.
(c.) Oncoming cars with no lights switched on loom frighteningly out of nowhere.
(d.) None of the above.
(e.) All of the above.

2. It is safer and preferable if….
(a.) All vehicles are clearly visible to all drivers.
(b.) Some vehicles are indistinct or invisible.
(c.) Other vehicles are clearly visible to me but I remain invisible or indistinct to other drivers.
(d.) All of the above.
(e.) None of the above.

If you answered (c.):
3. With which of the following statements would you agree?
(a.) Drivers who do not switch on their headlights when visibility is poor should be shot.
(b.) Drivers who do not switch on their headlights when visibility is poor should do 300 hours community service, directing traffic at a busy intersection in the rain.
(c.) Drivers who do not switch on their headlights when visibility is poor should have their vehicles confiscated, driving licenses suspended and repeat 1000 times under oath “I am a stupid idiot”.
(d.) All of the above.