• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I strongly doubt it was genuinely linked to that. There are EU countries where having lights on all the time is mandatory.

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      2 days ago

      There was an EU rule about ten years ago that stipulated that rear lights are no longer mandatory in daylight. The reasoning being to save on fuel. Which is a ridiculous reason, even more so with today’s LED lights.

      I don’t know about other EU countries but this was the reason that Sweden removed the requirement. All cars in Sweden used to have the rear lights turned on at all time, even if the light switch was in the off position, but that changed around the same time.

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        2 days ago

        that stipulated that rear lights are no longer mandatory in daylight.

        I don’t believe these were ever mandatory in the EU? UK never had such requirement.

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        What I mean is there are EU countries where lights are still mandatory and countries where it isn’t so I cannot see how it could be linked to EU requirements either way.