Why do you drive with your lights on during the day?

[Oxford]

I’ve noticed, over the past year or so, that a ton of folks drive with their lights on during the day.

I am talking about 50% or more of you folks are lighting up.

Don’t believe it? Look in your rear view mirror the next time you are cruising down I-5 during the day. And I am not talking about overcast days, evening’s fading light or rain. I’m talking full on, blue sky, California sunshine. There they are — a brigade of cars with their headlights beaming.

Now I bet some of you Piggs are in those cars. So whatup? Why do you do that?

OX
…sees the light and wonders why

[Coronita]

On some cars, it’s not intentional. Some cars have daylight running lights and they automatically stay on. It’s suppose to make oncoming traffic more aware of your presence.

Some manufacturers don’t do the full light treatment during the day, but just turn on an auxilary light. BMW uses “angel eyes”

Audi’s started employing the LED’s “evil look”.

I’m sure a few people probably mucked with these types of auxilary lights to keep them running in daylight, just because they look cool (never understood why though)

[Coronita]

On some cars, it’s not intentional. Some cars have daylight running lights and they automatically stay on. It’s suppose to make oncoming traffic more aware of your presence.

Some manufacturers don’t do the full light treatment during the day, but just turn on an auxilary light. BMW uses “angel eyes”

Audi’s started employing the LED’s “evil look”.

I’m sure a few people probably mucked with these types of auxilary lights to keep them running in daylight, just because they look cool (never understood why though)

[Coronita]

On some cars, it’s not intentional. Some cars have daylight running lights and they automatically stay on. It’s suppose to make oncoming traffic more aware of your presence.

Some manufacturers don’t do the full light treatment during the day, but just turn on an auxilary light. BMW uses “angel eyes”

Audi’s started employing the LED’s “evil look”.

I’m sure a few people probably mucked with these types of auxilary lights to keep them running in daylight, just because they look cool (never understood why though)

[Coronita]

On some cars, it’s not intentional. Some cars have daylight running lights and they automatically stay on. It’s suppose to make oncoming traffic more aware of your presence.

Some manufacturers don’t do the full light treatment during the day, but just turn on an auxilary light. BMW uses “angel eyes”

Audi’s started employing the LED’s “evil look”.

I’m sure a few people probably mucked with these types of auxilary lights to keep them running in daylight, just because they look cool (never understood why though)

[Coronita]

On some cars, it’s not intentional. Some cars have daylight running lights and they automatically stay on. It’s suppose to make oncoming traffic more aware of your presence.

Some manufacturers don’t do the full light treatment during the day, but just turn on an auxilary light. BMW uses “angel eyes”

Audi’s started employing the LED’s “evil look”.

I’m sure a few people probably mucked with these types of auxilary lights to keep them running in daylight, just because they look cool (never understood why though)

[SDWranglers]

While it’s true that many cars now come standard with DRLs, some of us actually mannually turn them on, me being one fo them. I have been turning on my lights mannually for at least 20 years.

Studies have been done that seem to indicate having DRLs improve safety.

Here’s a link to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

and here’s what it said about them in the US.

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.

Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada’s initial proposal. The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.

[SDWranglers]

While it’s true that many cars now come standard with DRLs, some of us actually mannually turn them on, me being one fo them. I have been turning on my lights mannually for at least 20 years.

Studies have been done that seem to indicate having DRLs improve safety.

Here’s a link to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

and here’s what it said about them in the US.

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.

Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada’s initial proposal. The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.

[SDWranglers]

While it’s true that many cars now come standard with DRLs, some of us actually mannually turn them on, me being one fo them. I have been turning on my lights mannually for at least 20 years.

Studies have been done that seem to indicate having DRLs improve safety.

Here’s a link to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

and here’s what it said about them in the US.

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.

Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada’s initial proposal. The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.

[SDWranglers]

While it’s true that many cars now come standard with DRLs, some of us actually mannually turn them on, me being one fo them. I have been turning on my lights mannually for at least 20 years.

Studies have been done that seem to indicate having DRLs improve safety.

Here’s a link to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

and here’s what it said about them in the US.

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.

Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada’s initial proposal. The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.

[SDWranglers]

While it’s true that many cars now come standard with DRLs, some of us actually mannually turn them on, me being one fo them. I have been turning on my lights mannually for at least 20 years.

Studies have been done that seem to indicate having DRLs improve safety.

Here’s a link to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

and here’s what it said about them in the US.

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.

Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada’s initial proposal. The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.

[Oxford]

Ahhh, I see. Another evil government plot!!! I knew it! Thanks for illuminating me on this subject.

Ox
…enlightened

[Oxford]

Ahhh, I see. Another evil government plot!!! I knew it! Thanks for illuminating me on this subject.

Ox
…enlightened

[Oxford]

Ahhh, I see. Another evil government plot!!! I knew it! Thanks for illuminating me on this subject.

Ox
…enlightened

[Oxford]

Ahhh, I see. Another evil government plot!!! I knew it! Thanks for illuminating me on this subject.

Ox
…enlightened

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