• grue@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      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.

      • jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 hours ago

        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.