Firstly, I don’t understand how when driving at night, people don’t check to make sure their lights are on.
Secondly, cars have DRL’s only on the front of the car. Leaving the rear of the car completely unlit in situations where proper dipped beans aren’t turned on.
I think a huge factor in this is when DRL’s are turned on, the dashboard is lit up. Leading people to believe that ‘because my dash is lit up, my lights are on’. They’re not.
Two things need to happen.
1. Drivers need to be aware of their own vehicle and make sure your actual lights are turned on at night or low light conditions.
2. Vehicle manufacturers should have caught on to this immediately, and implemented a fail-safe to prevent this scenario. Like Volvo and Saab in Sweden with dipped beams & rear parks always on.
Images found online to illustrate the problem.
There are quite a few running around without lights. Usually anywhere it gets dark they suddenly realise.
It always pissed me off that daytime running lights don’t also turn on the rear parking lights. The amount of cars you see driving on a rainy day with just the DRLs on is criminal.
They should have just made it that cars always have their dipped headlights and rear parking lights on. Especially in countries like Ireland.
Bad drivers are unsafe.
These are the same people who complain about people cycling not having lights on.
Cars should have auto lights as the default setting, I believe you cant turn off the lights on a Volvo for example.
I don’t understand why the rear lights cant be on all the time?
That looks more like a fault with the car. You can see a good spread of light ahead so the dipped beams appear to be on.
But yeah DRLs are unsafe. What a great idea to make vehicles more visible in normal daylight, to cover for bad eyesight and/or lack of observation, they’ve made them less visible at night and/or during bad weather. They have DRLs on Buses and HGVs FFS.
People who don’t know how to use their cars are unsafe, not the cars.
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Firstly, I don’t understand how when driving at night, people don’t check to make sure their lights are on.
Secondly, cars have DRL’s only on the front of the car. Leaving the rear of the car completely unlit in situations where proper dipped beans aren’t turned on.
I think a huge factor in this is when DRL’s are turned on, the dashboard is lit up. Leading people to believe that ‘because my dash is lit up, my lights are on’. They’re not.
Two things need to happen.
1. Drivers need to be aware of their own vehicle and make sure your actual lights are turned on at night or low light conditions.
2. Vehicle manufacturers should have caught on to this immediately, and implemented a fail-safe to prevent this scenario. Like Volvo and Saab in Sweden with dipped beams & rear parks always on.
Images found online to illustrate the problem.
There are quite a few running around without lights. Usually anywhere it gets dark they suddenly realise.
It always pissed me off that daytime running lights don’t also turn on the rear parking lights. The amount of cars you see driving on a rainy day with just the DRLs on is criminal.
They should have just made it that cars always have their dipped headlights and rear parking lights on. Especially in countries like Ireland.
Bad drivers are unsafe.
These are the same people who complain about people cycling not having lights on.
Cars should have auto lights as the default setting, I believe you cant turn off the lights on a Volvo for example.
I don’t understand why the rear lights cant be on all the time?
That looks more like a fault with the car. You can see a good spread of light ahead so the dipped beams appear to be on.
But yeah DRLs are unsafe. What a great idea to make vehicles more visible in normal daylight, to cover for bad eyesight and/or lack of observation, they’ve made them less visible at night and/or during bad weather. They have DRLs on Buses and HGVs FFS.
People who don’t know how to use their cars are unsafe, not the cars.