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Direction: The Transport division plans to submit a proposal for a security measure, indeed, already in some other countries: the use of light in cars during the day.

The division Transportation plans to submit a proposal for a security measure, indeed, already in some other countries: the use of light in cars during the day.

The lights, parking lights on, but as a variable headlamps are switched on and off automatically by the ignition. They are Sweden and Finland and Canada are mandatory for all new cars in early December 1, 1989.

Driving with lights”passing day seems to be the prevention of accidents and save lives, Sweden and Finland,’’said Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Secretary of Transportation. They use”in the USA we will determine whether the security advantages are the same in this country.”

While the laws in Sweden, Finland and Canada use the devices mandatory, USA, the proposed regulation would only allow their use, so that drivers the option to acquire the necessary equipment. Auto makers would be required for the lights of cars with optional accessories, an assistant in the department said.

Some countries have laws prohibiting the use of car is lit during the day, but the use of voluntary regulation would replace the prohibitions of the State.

Brian O’Neill, an official of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry group, seeking approval of the rule said that Volvo and Saab in Sweden, already have the automatic mechanism but it is that when cars are in the USA for sale.

Mr. O’Neill said, unless the voluntary regulation is adopted, Canadian drivers to the USA are likely to find a violation of the law in some countries, according to the general rule of Canada will enter into force.

The laws of the State are very different, “he said. Iowa and Arkansas, for example, prohibit the use of the terminal in light of a moving vehicle, unless the lights are too. Given that the courses of lights, parking lights replace cars, States would be as parking lights.

Louisiana prohibits the use of car parks for lighting lights”,” said O’Neill, and the California law is a problem. It assumes that the signals still have an intensity five times larger than the lights terminal. If the operation of lights, the brightest are replaced for parking lights, he said, the signals should be extremely clear in the comparison.

Mr. O’Neill said he knew of nothing in the laws of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, ban the use of lights is underway.

According to the Ministry of Transport, the day, Finland, the accident rate for failure, including more than 27 per cent, a vehicle has decreased when the driver was needed for current use of lights. In Sweden, he said that the accident rate for accidents during the day frontal decreased by 11 per cent, if the law came into force.

Canadian officials have estimated the additional costs for installing automatic device $ 10 to $ 30 per vehicle. Perhaps because the concern about salt in their diet, Americans are more spices in their food, according to the FDA consumer magazine of the Food and Drug Administration. The magazine, provided the following comparison, obtained from the Spice Trade Association, the production and import of spices, thousands of pounds.