Mike, I'm glad to hear you made it safe... But I have had vehicles for years with DRL and have known this since my first car with that option. I'm one of those funny guys, I read the manual. lol

 

C'mon Mark, real men don't need no stinkin' manuals.

JK, you're one up on me.

 

Wow! I pulled a heavily loaded 24' box trailer 600 miles last week through mountains. We got into heavy fog for awhile.......I was in the same situation but failed to notice your observation. Great info my friend.

 

I’ve noticed in the last few years more and more people driving at night with only DRL, and no tail lights. I think part of the problem is the electronic display dashboards don’t look much different from day to night. There’s less indication that it’s night and you don’t have headlights on. Also DRLs throw more light than they used to.

 

My truck has the Auto selection for my lights but I always turn them to On. I have mine on at all times I'm driving whether day or night or no matter the weather

 

This is a big issue here as all cars must run in the daytime with DRL’s automatically by default when the ignition switch is turned to on. I see it all the time with people forgetting to turn on their headlights at night and running with DRL. Even on new cars where this (should) be an automatic thing.) Sometimes it’s like 1 out of every 10 cars. I’m lucky I guess ..my Audi is pretty good about automatically turning on the lights with the slightest cloud cover or if the wipers have to react to a drop of rain hitting the windshield. I’ve been guilty of pulling up next to people at lights and having them roll down their window to tell them to turn their lights on ..much to the dismay of my wife.

 

I am still trying to teach everyone they can turn left at a red light if both streets are one way..... just two days ago I did it as I was first in line and the guy behind me honked at me

 

These are winter threads right?

 

We go to Panama for the winter. No fog but traffic can stop quickly. If you are the last one stopped in a line you turn on your 4 way flasher or you will probably get plowed into by some one doing 60.

 

@b_arrington
in NYC unless explicitly posted that it is allowed, there is no right on red (or left on red 1way to 1way)

 

@b_arrington
in NYC unless explicitly posted that it is allowed, there is no right on red (or left on red 1way to 1way)

True story....there is a one way intersection we all go thru all the time. My son was behind a guy and honked at him to go...the guy rolled down his window and told Mike to f**k off...Mike said you can turn left on a red...the guy gave him the finger.... the very next day Mike was at the same intersection and he sees the guy from the day before running up the side with two wheels up on the sidewalk to get up beside my son...they both rolled down their windows and the guy said he looked it up last night and he was right and apologized.
We have asked the city to put up a sign a number of times and they just ignore us

 

I leave my headlights on auto... problem solved.

And just an FYI... Most vehicles allow you to disable the DRL feature.

 

Jim, your headlights on Auto do not turn your taillights on in fog, unless it's dark enough to trigger the sensor. I think this was Mike's purpose to this thread. Mike

 

I think it depends on the cars. The sensors on our German cars are very sensitive where going under an overpass on a sunny day, or fog can trigger a switch to headlights/taillights). Although the DRLs are in the headlight housing, their different lights than the headlights. My old Silverado had to pretty much be in pitch blackness before the headlight/taillights would come on.

 

I always turn on my lights.
Just a habit now. I do hate seeing people driving in the dark with no tail lights, or worse, no headlights.