Rear headlights weren't on

ontheroad1970

With many auto lights systems you can go into the car's menu and change the sensitivity.  My car's lights will sometimes stay on after coming through an overpass when the windscreen is hit by bright sunlight.  

Biggus_Dickus

Username03725 said:

My headlights are always on - Volvos do that. But I often check that they are on, maybe someone else has been driving it or it's been moved during its time in for service. The switch itself is vague and imo easy to misinterpret. 

Other people's failure to use the correct lighting annoys me, esp those who leave rear fogs on when no longer needed or only use parking lights after lighting up time etc so it's become one of those things to check routinely just out of habit, and tbh all the more so in a different car to the usual transport.

The Scandinavian method is something that I’ve long advocated. Engine on = headlights on. No ambiguity.

Never going to happen in UK though is it?

sevenhills

BOWFER said:

I see this happening all the time these days, people completely unaware they don't have their proper headlights on.
Permanently backlit instruments don't help, neither does seeing their DRLs on the back of vehicles in front.
Many of these cars are fitted with auto headlights though, I know it for a fact, so why the owners don't just leave their switch on auto baffles me.

A standard fixed penalty notice might get people discussing this offence more often.

BOWFER

Biggus_Dickus said:

Username03725 said:

My headlights are always on - Volvos do that. But I often check that they are on, maybe someone else has been driving it or it's been moved during its time in for service. The switch itself is vague and imo easy to misinterpret. 

Other people's failure to use the correct lighting annoys me, esp those who leave rear fogs on when no longer needed or only use parking lights after lighting up time etc so it's become one of those things to check routinely just out of habit, and tbh all the more so in a different car to the usual transport.

The Scandinavian method is something that I’ve long advocated. Engine on = headlights on. No ambiguity.

Never going to happen in UK though is it?

TBH I prefer the current way, with DRLs.
Running about with headlights on all the time will shorten the lift of halogen bulbs considerably.
DRLs are usually LED, even if the headlights are still halogen, precisely for longevity.

BOWFER

sevenhills said:

BOWFER said:

I see this happening all the time these days, people completely unaware they don't have their proper headlights on.
Permanently backlit instruments don't help, neither does seeing their DRLs on the back of vehicles in front.
Many of these cars are fitted with auto headlights though, I know it for a fact, so why the owners don't just leave their switch on auto baffles me.

A standard fixed penalty notice might get people discussing this offence more often.

Utterly pointless. no one to enforce it.