![]() ![]() I came to know about the rule only later,” said Alok Jhadav, who bought a new bike with AHO last month. ![]() ![]() I got irritated and went to the showroom, seeking an explanation. “Pedestrians and people coming from the opposite side gesture at me to turn off the headlight. Meanwhile, flummoxed owners of new vehicles are quarrelling with representatives in bike showrooms, asking them to install a switch to kill the headlights. While the feature has become common in developed countries over the past 10 years, the Indian government decided to enforce it only last year. The vehicles were involved in 13,155 of the 44,011 accidents.ĭata from the National Crime Records Bureau showed that 32,524 of the 1.4 lakh people who died in accidents were two-wheeler riders. ![]() According to government data, two-wheelers accounted for nearly 30% of all accidents in Karnataka in 2015. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways had made it compulsory that new bikes be equipped with Automatic Headlamp On (AHO) from next month.ĪHO, similar to daytime running lamps in cars, is found to be effective in improving the visibility of the vehicle by attracting the attention of road users and improving their response time. From April, the headlights on all new two-wheelers will stay on once the ignition is turned on, be it day or night. ![]()
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