On 12/11/2008, David Marshall wrote...
>There is no such thing as city light - a urban legend or myth...
>OK volks...

Meh. Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative "final answer."

>  there is no such thing as a separate city light system on a
>vehicle - parking lights are the same as city lights and it is not
>legal
>to use them alone in a city anywhere in Europe now or any ECE
>complying
>country.

There _are_ city lights. The term refers to auxiliary bulb installed in
the headlamps, as opposed to separate lamps. BMW "angel eyes" are a
current example.

True, due to modern legalities, they come on with the parking lamps on
current vehicles. But that doesn't prove that was always the case, or
make them into "urban legends."

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