It is curious how two people can look at the
same thing and get totally different impressions of it. The versatile and anony- mous " Atticus " in the Sunday Times asserted categorically this week that to switch 'on sidelights when driving in daytime fog or mist makes no difference at all. I dissent completely from the statement, and deplore its possible consequences. It has been my invariable experience in some twenty-five years' driving that in a daylight fog the sidelights of an oncoming car are visible well before the outline of the car takes shape. They are, to my mind, a most valuable safeguard, and it would be highly regret- table if " Atticus's " many readers refrained from switching on their lights when conditions required. (It might mean that I myself ran into one of them.), * *
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