Ok, read through 4 pages of remarks that started with the remark that the lights were two close together. I immediately had two thoughts come to mind. 1) Jeeps. 2) Saturn cars. Both have their headlights fairly close, but I never read anything that said their safety was any worse than others. Not sure why some think the closeness of headlights have anything to do with safety. Would one see a motorcycle at 100 yards away and have a different sense of distance than a car at the same distance? Maybe I'm different, but a light at 100 yards is a light at 100 yards regardless of the source.
I then read about daytime running lights. I notice that new cars don't have them as much, and stats have not shown them to be any safer than those without them. One note, and just my observations. Many people with daytime running lights don't switch their headlights on in the rain/fog/dusk. Thats ok for the front, but their is no lights on the rear, and makes it dangerous for those not paying attention behind them.
I truly believe that all these additions to cars are making drivers worse. Drivers are beginning to be more dependent upon technology instead of good driving habits and paying attention to what's around you. We look to a monitor/camera instead of looking outside the car. We wait for beeps instead of knowing the distance of things around us. We wait for a blind-spot-monitor to blink at us if a cars there instead of turning our head or leaning forward while looking in the mirror to clear the blind spot. We have cars that park themselves. Don't get me wrong. Some of these are cool, but newer drivers have grown up depending on them and won't know how to drive without them if something breaks etc.....
Anyway good reading, there's a lot of good info out there, and we have some very intelligent folks on this forum from some of the mathematical computations and other info that I've read.
PS: Not related to the Elio, but saw God's Not Dead at the movies this weekend, and it was great.