[net.legal] Parking lights in California

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	In California, you may not drive with your parking lights on
unless your headlights are also on.  You may park with your parking
lights on if the car is 1) not in motion, and 2) within ten feet of the
roadside.  You may not drive with more than six lights illuminated on
the front of your car, each headlight counting as one light (except that
dual-lamp headlights (where both bulbs are lit on high-beam) only count
as one light per pair).  Thus, if your car has the permitted 2 fog lamps,
2 driving lamps, 2 passing lamps, and 2 spotlights in addition to the
required headlights and permitted parking lights, you can only have three
sets lit at a time.  Wheeee!

	It is forbidden to aim your spotlights more than forty-eight inches
off the surface of the road, or so that the focus of their beams is to the
left of the line extending forward from the left side of your car.