I feel safer when my headlights are on, and I can see other cars better when their headlights are on.

Examples: I'm on a sunny street, looking into the sun. At a stop sign, I can hardly see a dark car coming at me because it's in the dark shade of dense trees. If that other car had its lights on, I would see it sooner.

I want to pass on a 2-lane highway. I can see a car at a distance, but it is coming towards me or going away? If I could see its headlights, I would know.

Several years ago, an old man near Wichita got on the wrong side of the highway and ultimately caused the deaths of 5 people. If the cars coming at him had had their headlights on, it might have helped him understand immediately what was wrong and what to do.

Too many cars are a nice, tasteful medium gray, the color of a road. Others are white - the color of snow and fog. Lights help.