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

[Coronita]

[quote=SanDiegoDave]The daytime lights aren’t for you to see the road, they’re for other people to see you.

I’m fully in support of DRL. People are too irresponsible to even turn their headlights on during rain, dusk, fog and other hazardous condition (even in the middle of the night – I see it all the time). The auto DRL are the only way to keep these people from smashing into someone.

And on a somewhat related topic, why doesn’t the police department ever ticket people for burned out brake lights? I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t see someone whose brake lights are burned out. Often all three lights! Insane.
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Most people don’t know there light bulbs are burned out except some german cars that have a warning lamp to indicate that. (How often do you check your own brake lights tosee that they are working). And police do ticket people for burnt out bulbs during the holidays err i mean revenue collecting seasons.

[AK]

Yeah plenty of people neglect to turn on their headlights in hazardous conditions. But I think that’s a result of too many “safety” features in modern cars! Think about it … if you have daytime running lamps AND automatic dash illumination, you have no unambiguous visual cues to remind you to turn on your headlights! You can still see the instrument panel, and there’s just enough light ahead so you can kinda see the road.

I noticed the automatic dash illumination thing when I was a teenager in my friend’s 1985 Grand Am. Made it impossible to convince him that he’d forgotten to turn on the headlights. The other problem was that the steering wheel blocked the view of the speedometer between 30 mph and 80 mph due to crappy design. Likewise made it impossible to convince him that he had to slow down on winding roads.

[AK]

Yeah plenty of people neglect to turn on their headlights in hazardous conditions. But I think that’s a result of too many “safety” features in modern cars! Think about it … if you have daytime running lamps AND automatic dash illumination, you have no unambiguous visual cues to remind you to turn on your headlights! You can still see the instrument panel, and there’s just enough light ahead so you can kinda see the road.

I noticed the automatic dash illumination thing when I was a teenager in my friend’s 1985 Grand Am. Made it impossible to convince him that he’d forgotten to turn on the headlights. The other problem was that the steering wheel blocked the view of the speedometer between 30 mph and 80 mph due to crappy design. Likewise made it impossible to convince him that he had to slow down on winding roads.

[AK]

Yeah plenty of people neglect to turn on their headlights in hazardous conditions. But I think that’s a result of too many “safety” features in modern cars! Think about it … if you have daytime running lamps AND automatic dash illumination, you have no unambiguous visual cues to remind you to turn on your headlights! You can still see the instrument panel, and there’s just enough light ahead so you can kinda see the road.

I noticed the automatic dash illumination thing when I was a teenager in my friend’s 1985 Grand Am. Made it impossible to convince him that he’d forgotten to turn on the headlights. The other problem was that the steering wheel blocked the view of the speedometer between 30 mph and 80 mph due to crappy design. Likewise made it impossible to convince him that he had to slow down on winding roads.

[AK]

Yeah plenty of people neglect to turn on their headlights in hazardous conditions. But I think that’s a result of too many “safety” features in modern cars! Think about it … if you have daytime running lamps AND automatic dash illumination, you have no unambiguous visual cues to remind you to turn on your headlights! You can still see the instrument panel, and there’s just enough light ahead so you can kinda see the road.

I noticed the automatic dash illumination thing when I was a teenager in my friend’s 1985 Grand Am. Made it impossible to convince him that he’d forgotten to turn on the headlights. The other problem was that the steering wheel blocked the view of the speedometer between 30 mph and 80 mph due to crappy design. Likewise made it impossible to convince him that he had to slow down on winding roads.

[AK]

Yeah plenty of people neglect to turn on their headlights in hazardous conditions. But I think that’s a result of too many “safety” features in modern cars! Think about it … if you have daytime running lamps AND automatic dash illumination, you have no unambiguous visual cues to remind you to turn on your headlights! You can still see the instrument panel, and there’s just enough light ahead so you can kinda see the road.

I noticed the automatic dash illumination thing when I was a teenager in my friend’s 1985 Grand Am. Made it impossible to convince him that he’d forgotten to turn on the headlights. The other problem was that the steering wheel blocked the view of the speedometer between 30 mph and 80 mph due to crappy design. Likewise made it impossible to convince him that he had to slow down on winding roads.

[jamsvet]

I don’t mind DRLs as much as I do people who buy a car and turn on their fog lamps. When they turn the car back in 24 or 36 months later, the dealer turns the fog lamps off. Why they don’t have to be reset every time the vehicle is started is beyond me.

[jamsvet]

I don’t mind DRLs as much as I do people who buy a car and turn on their fog lamps. When they turn the car back in 24 or 36 months later, the dealer turns the fog lamps off. Why they don’t have to be reset every time the vehicle is started is beyond me.

[jamsvet]

I don’t mind DRLs as much as I do people who buy a car and turn on their fog lamps. When they turn the car back in 24 or 36 months later, the dealer turns the fog lamps off. Why they don’t have to be reset every time the vehicle is started is beyond me.

[jamsvet]

I don’t mind DRLs as much as I do people who buy a car and turn on their fog lamps. When they turn the car back in 24 or 36 months later, the dealer turns the fog lamps off. Why they don’t have to be reset every time the vehicle is started is beyond me.

[jamsvet]

I don’t mind DRLs as much as I do people who buy a car and turn on their fog lamps. When they turn the car back in 24 or 36 months later, the dealer turns the fog lamps off. Why they don’t have to be reset every time the vehicle is started is beyond me.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

Bc my car automatically has them on.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

Bc my car automatically has them on.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

Bc my car automatically has them on.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

Bc my car automatically has them on.

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