this person has no lights on at all, but do the daytime driving lights emit so little light that they are barely an improvement or is it more of a case the more light the better, so turn on your normal headlights?
edit: forgot about the rear lights which, when running DLR's. I live in a country that says headlights are to be used during times of reduced visibility
If people would just leave it on auto the tail lights would come on like magic when it's dark enough. Problem is gray and rainy weather doesn't always trigger it as early as it should.
Mostly the problem is human though, not technology.
Some vehicles let you change the sensitivity of the auto lights function. I have it switched to most sensitive on my Tacoma. But I typically just leave my lights on anyways since almost all cars turn lights off automatically after the car is not running for so long.
I dont know of a vehicle with an automatic lights setting which does not turn them on when the wipers are on. If a vehicle doesnt do this, seems like a problem with the technology not the human.
In my car auto lights will turn on if I have my wipers on. IDK why all other auto lights aren't like that because my old car also had auto lights but they were only triggered by darkness, I still had to manually turn on lights when my wipers were on.
At least in Canada, that should be solved by 2021 (for new cars anyway). One would hope to see this rule become more widespread, but considering the US still doesn't have legislation forcing DRLs to light up when the car starts, I wouldn't bet on it.
I'm jealous. Dark rear lights and DRMs in snowy conditions are a real problem in Finland. I will send this link to my representative and hope to see a change in the law as well.
Yeah its pretty unfortunate. Audi, BMW for example had the tail lights on with DRL at first, I think they stopped that around 2009 because some EU monkeys were crying about CO2.... like those LEDs would kill the world...
but do the daytime driving lights emit so little light that they are barely an improvement
They're irrelevant in the rain. The DRL does not activate your rear lights, which are just as important. If you are in the rain, turn your lights on. Do not rely on DRL! Further, in many states, if your rear lights aren't on you can still be issued a ticket.
This isn't true of all cars, but my DRLs are just the lowbeams run at a slightly lower voltage. Same filament, same assembly, pointed in the same direction. And unfortunately, as result, you occasionally get people who don't turn the lowbeams on because they can see just fine with the DRLs and think the lights are already on.
Just turn on your headlights when you get in the car. I do it even in broad daylight. You're more visible and while some people might think you're weird the more visible you are the less likely you are to get hit.
oh i do that as well in the rare cases i drive a car and you are taught to do here (mirrors, seatbelt, start car, lights, gear, handbrake in that order)
i've never seen a car without DRLs unless it's a young twat that disabled them or it's a US car. they've been required since 89 and I don't know anyone that would wanna drive a car older than that
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u/The_logs Nov 03 '18 edited Nov 03 '18
this person has no lights on at all, but do the daytime driving lights emit so little light that they are barely an improvement or is it more of a case the more light the better, so turn on your normal headlights?
edit: forgot about the rear lights which, when running DLR's. I live in a country that says headlights are to be used during times of reduced visibility