The reason for that is that once one starts to define aparkinglight, the matter becomes extremely complex.
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A horizontal rub molding ran from the frontparkinglighthousings to the trailing edge of the front door and stopped.
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Early in 1963 production theparkinglightbezels were changed and the right side of the dash became woodgrain, matching the area around the instruments.
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Cars and motorcycles must use low beam light (notparkinglight) at all times of the day.
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I am convinced that most side lights today are only suitable as parking lights.
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Instead, they should be termed "driving lights"and"parking lights".
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One way in which we can start in that direction is to stop calling those silly things "sidelights"and start calling them"parking lights" instead.
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Existing regulations require side lights to be white and parking lights to be white to the front and red to the rear.
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In fact, therefore, they drive on their parking lights.
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We ought to consider them purely as parking lights and to call them parking lights.
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If they were called "parking lights", then they would presumably put on their driving lights.
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Is it not true that manufacturers refer to them as parking lights?
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I think the current situation is that parking lights are not required on vehicles parked at night and therefore it would be inaccurate to call sidelights, "parking lights".
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It has been suggested by some members of the public that we should revert to the pre-1972 situation and require all vehicles to have parking lights.
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It also had three horizontal grille bars with the parking lights between the bars and a chrome vertical center piece.
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