§ Mr. Oakesasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will introduce a ban on parking lights only on all moving vehicles during the hours of lighting-up.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNo. Headlights often cause unnecessary glare under good street lighting and a ban on the use of sidelights would be unenforceable.
The dim-dip regulations will help to solve this problem by providing automatically an intermediate level of lighting, brighter and more conspicuous than sidelights but without the glare of headlights, whenever a vehicle is driven with only the sidelights switched on.
§ Mr. Oakesasked the Secretary of State for Transport which countries in the European Economic Community require motor vehicles to be fitted with the dim-dip devices of the type required by the Motor Vehicle (Dim/Dip Lighting Devices) Regulations 1983, S.I. No. 1859.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNone at present, but there is considerable interest in the potential of dim-dip devices to solve a problem which is experienced in towns and cities throughout Europe.
§ Mr. Oakesasked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the total estimated annual cost to the British motor car manufacturing industry arising from the implementation of the Motor Vehicle (Dim/Dip Lighting Devices) Regulations 1983, S.I. No. 1859.
§ Mrs. ChalkerVehicle and component manufacturers have told us that additional production costs of the dim-dip system will be around £1.50 per vehicle. Last year nearly 1 million British-produced motor vehicles were sold in the United Kingdom. On that basis, the total annual additional production costs for British motor vehicle manufacturers will be around £1.5 million.