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Daytime Running Lights = stupidity?
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poland has had compulsory lights for years and they still have the worst road stats in the EU.
What research has been carried out to correlate having DRLs and their record on road traffic collisions?The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
why are people panicking about the new law, its not going to hurt anyone at all ever. at most it will cost a few quid every 2/3 years for bulbs but it will help you be seen in the rain/fog/morning/mist etc. and by the way its only valid for new cars so most of us are out of the equation anyway.Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0
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poland has had compulsory lights for years and they still have the worst road stats in the EU.
Have you ever driven in Poland? if so you'd realise that they need more than a few fairy lights to make driving safer... I remember driving back from Krakow to the German border and they were building a 2 lane motorway, they had completed the one carriageway but were still laying the other side, so the complete carriageway was opened as a single lane road. Ill never forget seeing a lorry overtaking a lorry, both being overtaken by someone in a Fiat 126, forcing my line of traffic onto the grass... crazy stuff...0 -
paddedjohn wrote: »why are people panicking about the new law, its not going to hurt anyone at all ever. at most it will cost a few quid every 2/3 years for bulbs but it will help you be seen in the rain/fog/morning/mist etc. and by the way its only valid for new cars so most of us are out of the equation anyway.
Which is confusing the heck out of me when people write that they have felt vulnerable because of this new legislation. I can guarantee you that less than four per cent of cars on the road have DRLs.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Picking up my New Smart car this weekend. It has LED daytime running lights, So I will be in the less than 4%0
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Have you ever driven in Poland? if so you'd realise that they need more than a few fairy lights to make driving safer... I remember driving back from Krakow to the German border and they were building a 2 lane motorway, they had completed the one carriageway but were still laying the other side, so the complete carriageway was opened as a single lane road. Ill never forget seeing a lorry overtaking a lorry, both being overtaken by someone in a Fiat 126, forcing my line of traffic onto the grass... crazy stuff...
Lucky he had DLRs!
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tillycat123 wrote: »Picking up my New Smart car this weekend. It has LED daytime running lights, So I will be in the less than 4%
Indeed you will. The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
davidjwest wrote: »Lucky he had DLRs!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
What??????? wba31 had to cope with electric driverless trains as well. Wow, that's some transportation system to witness.
The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
The canadian version of Daytime running lamps operate in the low beam at half brillance 2007 Ford focus
The lamps that we find offensive are the fog lamps that people install or recieve on new vehicles and never shut them off in clear weather we need to have motor vehicle safety standards that make it illegal to operate fog lamps during clear weather However there are some aftermarket headlamps that are really bright and people are buying them because they want to see into next week. and unless we can law enforcement out of time Hortons and enforcing illegal systems and improved safety regulations
we are in for trouble all drivers0 -
speaking from a retired canadian vehicle inspectors point of view, in B.C. Canada in the 1975 era a B.C. firm invented the D.R.L. system
Insight electronics now manufacture the stuff locally
we installed 2000 kits on car trucks graders and all road mtce equipment and experienced a great drop in frontal collisions,
the installation became a canadian standard and written into canada safety standards I am a fan of the D.R.L system because in low light conditions oncoming vehicles standout its now the older vehicles that
are not visible in the oncoming traffic flow
we have some real safety problems with folks that wont shut off their fog lamps in clear weather but hopefully we can clean up the safety regulations as they did in the U.K making the use of fog lamps in clear weather an offense under law its sites like this where we can share information and lobby our lawmakers to smarten up the safety laws
Cheers0
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