I wonder at the mentality of my fellow humans

[Ian Perry]

This morning...

Driving through town, slightly misty but traffic was bunched up of course, so no visibility issues. Yet loads of cars had their fog lights on.

When I got out of town, into a rural area of west Berkshire, there was patchy fog (sometimes quite heavy with visibility down to about 40m in places), but about 25% of the cars going the other way had no lights on at all!

🤪🙄

[Howard]

My wife made almost the same comment after she drove 15 miles in Bedfordshire to have the Vitara serviced this morning.

Plonker all of them....

[nang]

It happens in New Zealand too. God knows how many drivers (?) run around in semi darkness or worse with only parking lights on. This is illegal here.

Tony.

[Hogie]

We have the opposite problem in West London.

Anything bigger than an A35 has its main beams on all the time - day/night/sun/smog/fog

A pair of HID's or LASER LED's bearing down on you is quite off putting.

 

The only cure is to get a taller and taller car - hence the arrival of the SUV etc.

 

Roger

[Antonnick]

I was stopped a few years ago by the Wachpolizei because I had fog lights on in daytime. I had switched them on whilst driving on the Autobahn in very heavy rain. As a result I was fined €10 with the comment that " the lights dazzle oncoming motorists". 

I am never dazzled by fog lights whether in daytime or at night - do others have the same expereince?

Antonia

[glang]

Its not front fog lights that give me problems as much as rear ones when used in wet/dark conditions. It is strange how often theres a lack of use of indicators or slowness to put on headlights but rear foglights are energised at every opportunity🤪  

[chris2]

a lot modern car with auto headlights will not work on fog ,

a lot do not now to turn no to manual

turn headlights on .

Chris

[Rosbif]

Back in the day when about the only cars with daylight running lights were Volvos it was quite common for foreign drivers of such cars in France to be stopped as the Gendarmes didn't appreciate them being on in good conditions.

Now lots of cars have automatic lights it is common to have cars with just them on and no rear lights when in the old days the driver would have switched them on. A case of 'the car knows best' I suppose.

My Skoda seems very keen to put headlights on the moment visibility isn't 100%. I tend to keep mine on manual and switch them on when I think they are needed. It also gives me something to do and helps keep my fingers nimble.