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Motormouth: If you have automatic headlight setting, use it

Q: I have seen so many cars with their headlights off driving in the evening and cannot stop wondering about something. There is an auto setting for headlights, and it appears that should be the default so that we don't have to worry about turning the lights on and off.

Should we make it extra hard to switch to the off position? In addition,

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