Switch your lights on!!

red_eye

Wig wrote: »

And now you also get the idiots driving in cars with daytime running lights which are extremely bright, when the skies are darkened, this is as bad as driving with full beams on .

they are safety feature, it works you noticed them. they no way near as bright as full beams.

well there is nothing you can do all new cars will have daylight running lights and there is no way of turning them off

Sgt_Pepper_2

Tilt wrote: »

Its quite dull and chucking it down

Or maybe just because it is daylight (although very poor daylight, almost dusk like), they think they are simply not required?

Any ideas anyone? :think:

Quite dull is hardly seriously reduced visibility is it?:D

Tilt wrote: »

So when is the offence committed then... in bright sunny conditions?

I've already posted that.

Yolina

red_eye wrote: »

well there is nothing you can do all new cars will have daylight running lights and there is no way of turning them off

Actually they do turn off... When you switch the "proper' lights on :rotfl: at least that's how it works on my car with factory-fitted DRLs.

Tilt

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Quite dull is hardly seriously reduced visibility is it?:D

I said "quite dull and chucking it down of rain" actually. Rain (which is made out of water) makes the road surface really wet and when lots of traffic travels along, it creates spray which reduces visibility. Also, the rain will create lots of little droplets on your side windows making it tricky to see clearly when pulling out of a side road whether any traffic is approaching... unless said traffic has their lights on of course.

I think most reasonable people will already know this of course but as that excludes yourself, I have taken the time to explain it to you... seeing as we are in the season of good will. :snow_laug

Mrs_Imp

Blackjack_Davy wrote: »

They're School Run Mums, I run into them every afternoon at school closing time. Complete numpties.

Not literally I hope!

waynedance

No problem for me as my lights come on automatically in the rain, would still put them on anyway. The windows also shut themselves in the rain lol.

SailorSam

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Yet I can still see the hill over the back of me and that's a mile and a half away, so is that 'reduced visibility'?

And if you go outside now and look up into the sky you may well be able to see the stars, and they're millions of miles away, but that doesn't mean you should be driving down the road without your lights on.

apesxx

i needed to turn around tonight, i checked all my mirrors and it was clear so started to perform a turn in the road, when i turned round i was shocked to see a car behind sat waiting to get passed me. I didnt see it coz it was a dark car, on a dark street with no bloody lights on and the driver was staring at me like i was in the wrong.

copystuff

I have seen several drivers driving with just side lights at night it should be stopped as some of the side lights are not very bright.

poppasmurf_bewdley

SailorSam wrote: »

And if you go outside now and look up into the sky you may well be able to see the stars, and they're millions of miles away, but that doesn't mean you should be driving down the road without your lights on.

So if I go out tonight and can't see the stars, does that mean I have to put my fog lights on?