People can’t seem to manage that these days even for darkness, and you expect them to do it for fog?!
(I blame DRLs. SO MANY people driving around with what appear to be headlights on, but no tail lights because they didn’t actually turn the switch or something. SMH.)
of all the mandated safety systems on vehicles, the fact that automatic headlights arent one of them is astounding to me. I’ve had automatic headlights in nearly every vehicle I’ve owned for the last 20 years, none of which were particularly high end, and seeing there’s vehicles out there that still don’t come with it is nuts.
It’s mostly newer cars that I see going around without their tail lights on. I only drive older cars so I don’t know from personal experience, but I think ‘automatic headights’ might more likely be part of the problem.
automatic headlights turn on when a light sensor on the dash detects that it’s dark enough out to need the headlights on, when the headlights are on, the tail running lights are on as well. If you see a car at night with it’s tail lights off, it either doesn’t have automatic headlights or the dumbass at the wheel turned them off.
Annoying thing with those is driving where the law requires lights to be on when using wipers in the rain. But the rain isn’t always enough to make it dark enough to activate automatic lights. So you have to switch your lights to on rather than automatic.
I share your pain. I drive with my lights on at all times unless it’s fully sunny, in which case I use just the DRLs. I truly think having your lights on hugely reduces your risk of an accident.
Honestly they should just be designing cars to include tail lights in RDLs, there’s no reason for them not to be on all the time tbh.
People can’t seem to manage that these days even for darkness, and you expect them to do it for fog?!
(I blame DRLs. SO MANY people driving around with what appear to be headlights on, but no tail lights because they didn’t actually turn the switch or something. SMH.)
of all the mandated safety systems on vehicles, the fact that automatic headlights arent one of them is astounding to me. I’ve had automatic headlights in nearly every vehicle I’ve owned for the last 20 years, none of which were particularly high end, and seeing there’s vehicles out there that still don’t come with it is nuts.
It’s mostly newer cars that I see going around without their tail lights on. I only drive older cars so I don’t know from personal experience, but I think ‘automatic headights’ might more likely be part of the problem.
automatic headlights turn on when a light sensor on the dash detects that it’s dark enough out to need the headlights on, when the headlights are on, the tail running lights are on as well. If you see a car at night with it’s tail lights off, it either doesn’t have automatic headlights or the dumbass at the wheel turned them off.
Annoying thing with those is driving where the law requires lights to be on when using wipers in the rain. But the rain isn’t always enough to make it dark enough to activate automatic lights. So you have to switch your lights to on rather than automatic.
I share your pain. I drive with my lights on at all times unless it’s fully sunny, in which case I use just the DRLs. I truly think having your lights on hugely reduces your risk of an accident.
Honestly they should just be designing cars to include tail lights in RDLs, there’s no reason for them not to be on all the time tbh.