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In the interest of safety on the roads, I think we could tackle one aspect which would prevent a lot of accidents happening.
A number of accidents occur at night, some of which, one must assume, would have been avoided if vision were better. All road vehicles have a high beam lighting facility which, if used all the time during night driving, would afford this better vision. Alas, because of traffic density, the times when headlight high beam is used are rare.
When the high beam isn't used, full vision is not obtained by the driver, and when it is used, blinding dazzle is given to the on-coming drivers; both situations allow accidents to happen.
Although it would cost more for windscreens with the polaroid effect, why can't they be made obligatory and the law amended to make all vehicles travelling in the dark do so using headlights on high beam?
This would give the by-product saving of making it unnecessary to install expensive open road street lighting, which is also costly to operate and maintain.
M. P. DIXON, Coventry.