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Originally Posted by Sea Six
The yellow vests are for use when the occupants are out of their car, like when the vehicle is disabled. Helps cut down on insurance payouts due to vehicle / pedestrian collisions. It's the law over there for each car to have two.
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The yellow vests are a symbol of the nanny state, and really, just another way of controlling people, another easy ticket. Oh, I'm sorry, your license plate light is burned out....here's your ticket. Oh, you only have ONE vest in the car when I pulled you over, even though you are alone in the car? Ticket.
It's just one more thing to ding people for. The prevalence of speed cameras over there is also nuts. We had our foray here into the red light camera menace, and virtually all of our area finally voted them out. We were able to vote out that little bit of tyranny.
Looks like the French are taking a different route.