Originally posted by Bumnah
I really don't think that's why the civic' have city lights.
i'm thinking they use the city lights instead of the parking. so if you are parked somewhere you can have the city lights on so you aren't having you lights on all the way, but hte lights let others know you are there... that's the only reason i can see why the courtesy lights come on instead of the corners when you switch to the parking light position.
i really don't think japan is so illuminated you can drive around with just city lights.
You should try traveling to asia sometime. I've been there, and I've seen it. You wouldnt believe what advertising on the streets/roads do to major cities at night. In japan, Hong Kong, etc etc....there are very few parking spaces to be showing off the city lights....it wouldnt serve a purpose for just being parking lights like we have here in the wide open roads and ridiculous amounts of parking on the streets of a local U.S. city.