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Originally Posted by glenluceskies
. No headlights.
Stephen
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I agree with everything Stephen has said except for the above point.
Whilst you shouldn't drive in with high beams on lighting the place up like Luna Park, you should drive in (and leave) very slowly with enough lights on to see where you are driving and ensuring the safety to everyone and everything that might be in your path. You don't need to hit a child or put your car into a gully or the like because you were driving in with no lights on to preserve the night vision of a few selfish individuals. People will yell and scream at you, let them. I just tell them where to get off.
Laboratory tests have proven that dark adaption is only momentarily affected by "brief" exposures to white light (less than 30 seconds) and will recover within 1 or 2 minutes. It will take an injured person, animal or child a lot longer than that to recover if it is damaged.
Cheers,
John B