Research found that turning the vehicles' lights on can prevent accidents.
In Canada, the authorities made it a requirement for vehicles to automatically turn the lights on once the motor engine starts running. So day and night, vehicles running the streets have their lights ON. It is safer because you can easily recognized vehicles. Canada is quick to adopt such a helpful research finding, and undoubtedly saves many lives and limbs.
In the Philippines, a research finding like this would surely take the usual snail's pace before this can be implemented. Many lives may have to be shed before policy makers can appreciate the urgency of such move. So, on our own, let us do this voluntarily. Let us turn ON our lights. Why not? It does not need a law to do that out of own free will. In the same way, no law prevents us from turning ON our vehicles' lights. We just want to make our roads a little safer for all of us.
BTW, it is not a waste of electricity if we turn the lights ON, even during daytime.
So turn your lights ON! Let others see the lights of day. The life you saved maybe your own.
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