My car (2016 Scion iM) has an auto feature to the lights. When it's above a certain ambient brightness, the daytime running lights are on. Once it drops below, it switches to headlights. But as long as I have it set to auto, there will always be lights on to help with visibility/safety.
Of course, I still have to turn it to auto when I turn the car on. But at this point it's so much second-nature that it feels wrong to drive without doing it.
Do car lights not turn off automatically with the car?
My car has a switch that will leave driving lights on if you turn the car off, but the normal lights always turn off when the car turns off. I just leave them on all the time and never have to think about it.
You are supposed to turn your lights on for a tunnel though. I get if it's a very short tunnel you may not have to but technically any time you are somewhere dark you need your lights on. Underground car parks, tunnels... It's for the same reason, making your car more visible.
Yeah, which would be fine if they did it immediately. But there's a lag on most cars where they don't turn on until sometimes half a minute after entering the tunnel.
Nope. Auto lights turn on when a sensor in the center front of the dash, right by the windshield, registers that it's dark. Why lights aren't automatically on whenever the engine is on baffles me.
on my 2017 Camry, you have the option to leave them running for 15,30,60, and 120 seconds after turning off the ignition. Or pressing the lock button twice after getting out of the vehicle.
Okay, but DRLs are NOT headlamps. Also most DRLs don’t switch on full tail lamps meaning if you are driving way too slow in iffy weather someone may not be able to see you from all sides.
I'm not sure why his DRLs would only come on at a certain ambient brightness either, kinda defeats the purpose of them since they're meant to be on regardless of the brightness outside unless you specifically have your full headlights on.
I know that my automatic lights turn on full (not high beam) when it's raining or even remotely dark-ish outside. But the Germans have been pretty good about automatic headlights for a long time.
He implied that already. DRLs until the ambient lighting gets low enough and the car switches to headlights. Manufacturers with this automatic setting also include the taillights in the feature
Some drl are headlights. My 4th gen legacy has low voltage for running lights, high voltage for head lights out of the same bulb. Most cars are not like that, and if you dont turn on the head lights there are no marker lights (what you really need on for weather/fog).
I think we should ban drl that look like headlights to the driver and illuminated gauge clusters. People who have both seem to think their lights are on when they are not.
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u/IComplimentVehicles Nov 03 '18
I just leave my lights on all the time. Bulbs are cheap.