Please don't put your rear fog lights on when it's raining

prowla

It dazzles other drivers.

DoaM

Add to that ... don't put them on unless it's thick fog - a little light mist does not need rear fog lights!

DigForVictory

You ​MUST NOT​ use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is
seriously reduced (see ​Rule 226​) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You ​MUST​ switch them off when visibility improves.

Rule 226 is as follows

You MUST use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet). You may also use front or rear fog lights but you MUST switch them off when visibility improves (see Rule 236).

photome

My pet hate....I can’t remember last time I used mine, even in fog.

Bloody idiots

Ergates

DigForVictory wrote: »

Rule 226 is as follows

I wonder what rule 34 would say on the matter

Blueblood

Most ppl don't even bother putting their lights on when it's raining !!:T:T

Money_Grabber13579

Blueblood wrote: »

Most ppl don't even bother putting their lights on when it's raining !!:T:T

Or dark....

cubegame

Always makes me smile when you see cars doing 70 mph and above with their fog lights on.

By the time the visibility is low enough to consider putting the fog lights on you really shouldn't be doing much more than 30...perhaps they should wire the switch to a speed limiter.

I've used fog lights once in 23 years of driving.....on that occasion it was SO foggy I wound the windows down as well so I could listen for other vehicles......

Marvel1

Non fog, but rain: Put your rear lights on, not just your front!

facade

Marvel1 wrote: »

Non fog, but rain: Put your rear lights on, not just your front!

This is because "modern" "better" cars have a dash that is lit up all the time, for no practical reason.


In a Proper Olden Days car, you put the lights on when you noticed that you couldn't see the instruments, or if it was just poor visibility, you could tell they were on because the instruments were lit up.


Now cars have running lights at the front, so it isn't possible to have no lights on at all, but there are no lights at the back.

AdrianC

Blueblood wrote: »

Most ppl don't even bother putting their lights on when it's raining !!:T:T

Equally stupid.

facade wrote: »

This is because "modern" "better" cars have a dash that is lit up all the time, for no practical reason.

In a Proper Olden Days car, you put the lights on when you noticed that you couldn't see the instruments, or if it was just poor visibility, you could tell they were on because the instruments were lit up.

Or because the "dip beam on" dash warning light was on...

It's simply user stupidity, exacerbated by poor design. But that bad design is trivially easy for a competent user to deal with.