Driving with Headlights on

aardvaak

nickcc wrote: »

Not sure what you mean, so no more ?

I meant say no more!

bsms1147

Smarter people than you have decided daytime lights are a good thing.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457596000413

http://www.motocicletasyseguridadvial.com/Presentaciones/Informes%20y%20Estudios/A%C3%B1o%201997/The%20safety%20effects%20of%20Daytime%20Running%20Lights.pdf

Tilt

GolfBravo wrote: »

I personally can see both cars... good job too seeing as they are on the wrong side of the road!

aardvaak

bsms1147 wrote: »

Smarter people than you have decided daytime lights are a good thing.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457596000413

http://www.motocicletasyseguridadvial.com/Presentaciones/Informes%20y%20Estudios/A%C3%B1o%201997/The%20safety%20effects%20of%20Daytime%20Running%20Lights.pdf

And they are smarter then?

Johnmcl7

The example of the car in the tree is a good one, I also find in the bright sun if the car is backlit it makes it a lot more noticeable if it had DRL's or sidelights on. I'm a bit puzzled as to why someone would get upset about people having DRL's, headlights or sidelights on during the day, full beam headlights or fog lights I could understand but that doesn't appear to the case.

John

nickcc

One draw back with using headlights during daylight is the increase in bulb failure and the cost of bulbs and vehicle downtime, not so much of a problem with LED's but a major cost with halogen headlight bulbs with a minimum downtime of 30 minutes and sometimes considerably longer.

mattyprice4004

aardvaak wrote: »

No these were not prats in volvos but they only have side lights on!

You are a prat, and an ill-educated one at that. Most Volvos have the dipped beam on all the time, without driver interaction.

How does that sit with your silly view?

Lum

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

You are a prat, and an ill-educated one at that. Most Volvos have the dipped beam on all the time, without driver interaction.

Last Volvo I owned (a 940) actually had a separate low power bulb stuck in the headlight reflector so that it could have DRLs that were noticible but dim enough to not really be annoying.

Thing that bothers me about the current lighting thing is twofold.

1) Bikers kinda need to be able to stand out because idiot car drivers are terrible at spotting anything smaller than a Ford Focus and a biker being hit is going to come off a lot worse than a car driver. To compete with today's cars, the bikes have ended up with something brighter than an old car's full beams which end up flickering away in your rear mirror leaving green blobs on your retinas until you dim your mirror in the middle of the day.

2) What about pedestrians and cyclists? They generally don't have these modern lights, and with car drivers getting increasingly used to every vehicle being lit up like a Tron lightcycle are even less likely to spot these road users, the most vulnerable of all.

TradePro

aardvaak wrote: »

Before today I thought DLR was the Docklands Light Railway!

No, it definitely stands for Daytime Lights Running

I personally think you are a massive kn*b looking for an argument!

aardvaak

TradePro wrote: »

No, it definitely stands for Daytime Lights Running

I personally think you are a massive kn*b looking for an argument!

Well it takes one tn know one!