What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Duncan Grimmond]

My bugbear with modern car lighting is that the rear lights are not incorporated into the running light circuit. The result is that in rain or mist or even fog people don't put their lights on as they think they are already "on" and the rear remains unlit. I have seen this countless times in light rain on motorways at high speed. The regs would appear to assume that drivers follow the instruction to turn lights on in times of poor visibility (fat chance!).
Surely the system should be "side" lights as "running" lights at both ends with more at the front as needed?