lead with your lights on... take 2

[Pr⊕phet]

so do you still drive with your lights on if you have recently started doing so with the "702 thing" ?

i myself only do the lights thing when i'm not driving in suburbs. i've counted 6 cars to work and rest does not, it seems that it's a thing of less and less enthusiasm.

[unskinnybob]

The only time I turn on my headlights is when my gang members and I are having a hard time selecting a victim on initiation runs. Highbeams offer the quickest results.

[VioAdmin]

Always drive with my lights on, my car does it automatically so I have gotten used to it all these years.

[rorz0r]

Generally when I'm going home I put my lights on in the parking lot because some morons cut corners so at least maybe seeing some lights will let them see there's a car there. Generally leave them on.

[Colin62]

What's 702?

[Mike Hoxbig]

I used to do it even before this whole initiative. Then my bulbs started going after a few months, and at R300 a pop I'm not prepared to keep doing it.

[plummet]

What's 702?

think its a 1970's pop group...

[ABCpt]

think its a 1970's pop group...

ROFL, it is actually a radio station.

[Fazda]

I used to do it even before this whole initiative. Then my bulbs started going after a few months, and at R300 a pop I'm not prepared to keep doing it.

If your bulbs keep going, it's probably another problem, not the fact that you are running with bulbs doing what they were designed to do.

Pleased to say that most of us on the Durban/South Coast run are now running with headlights on.

Makes everyone a great deal more visible.

[...aTrueASL]

I would but, I would seriously forget to switch the lights off. Rather safe than sorry.

[Fazda]

I would but, I would seriously forget to switch the lights off. Rather safe than sorry.

Time to buy a decent car...mine automatically switch off when I switch the car off...;)

[Archer]

If your bulbs keep going, it's probably another problem, not the fact that you are running with bulbs doing what they were designed to do.

Pleased to say that most of us on the Durban/South Coast run are now running with headlights on.

Makes everyone a great deal more visible.

Except bikers... Honestly, this whole DRL thing started in northern Europe where even during the day it was always gloomy and overcast, hence the NEED for lights to be on (and even then, only at 40% power). Here in SA we actually get to see the sun more than 5 days out of the year so its completely unnecassary.

[Fazda]

Except bikers... Honestly, this whole DRL thing started in northern Europe where even during the day it was always gloomy and overcast, hence the NEED for lights to be on (and even then, only at 40% power). Here in SA we actually get to see the sun more than 5 days out of the year so its completely unnecassary.

Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.

[Leostar]

Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.

It is really helpful when passing on national roads.
Lights on the left side = warning, car on left side is comming and not going :-)
Then it is safer for all concerned when traveling on national open roads.
But city driving during the day needs no lights on I think?


Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on

[Pr⊕phet]

It is really helpful when passing on national roads.
Lights on the left side = warning, car on left side is comming and not going :-)
Then it is safer for all concerned when traveling on national open roads.
But city driving during the day needs no lights on I think?why i switch on outside city/suburbs



Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on
or in the rain/mist...

[Nerfherder]

Driving with your lights on during the day = most retarded thing ever.

I can't believe they wasted money on a billboard for it.... FAIL

[Archer]

Without starting this whole debate which has been hammered into oblivion, all over again. It has sweet blow all to do with sunshine and cloud at all. A car with its headlights on is more visible than one without.

End of story.


DRLs were first mandated in Scandinavian countries, where ambient light levels in the winter are generally low even during the day.
Yip, sweet nothing to do with ambient light levels :whistle:

End of story (is this the new "I am right and nothing anyone can say about it" phrase?)

[...aTrueASL]

Time to buy a decent car...mine automatically switch off when I switch the car off...;)

You're definitely right. Just waiting for the business to kick off and then we will see. However, I doubt if I will drive with my lights on.

[Fazda]

Now to get those idiots that drive without lights on at night ar dusk to switch on

I nearly clobbered an idiot in the rain the other day, he was in a sapphire blue Golf sitting just behind my left bumper, with no lights on in the rain, so the car was almost invisible, if I hadn't done a blind spot double check before moving left, I would have hit him.

Idiots think that if they can still see then they are automatically visible...also nearly taken out on the freeway with a dirty burgundy red Mazda came flying up behind me at dusk, running in invisibility mode, as I was about to pass someone. Had I caught a glimpse of his lights a few hundred metres back, I wouldn't have even considered passing.

For some strange reason South Africans think that running with your lights on runs the battery flat....we do not drive Torches people....our batteries remain charged with alternators! :mad:

[Fazda]

Driving with your lights on during the day = most retarded thing ever.

I can't believe they wasted money on a billboard for it.... FAIL

OOPS, sorry, they should have discussed the entire safety aspect with someone like you first! :rolleyes:

MEGAFAIL!

[lcbxx]

Driving with your lights on increases CO2 output of your car and fscks up the environment.

Personally I don't care. To me it takes away the advantage motorcyclists have on the road. People still drive like dorks anyway, lights on or not.

[Fazda]

End of story (is this the new "I am right and nothing anyone can say about it" phrase?)

Not at all it means that this topic has been flogged to death on various threads and you always end up with the same arguments being bandied about. By all means run in the dark, just don't kill anyone else but yourself in the process, because they cannot see you coming.

[riscbroker]

If your bulbs keep going, it's probably another problem, not the fact that you are running with bulbs doing what they were designed to do.

Pleased to say that most of us on the Durban/South Coast run are now running with headlights on.

Makes everyone a great deal more visible.

I'd be happy if someone explained to those tjops that insist on driving in daylight with their brights on that it doesn't make them more visible than the lesser beings

[Bismuth]

People must first learn to drive with their main lights on, not PARK lights, I mean, wtf?. Same goes for using lights at night, the fact that you cannot see your dashboard should be a clue.

In any case, I thought it was compulsory (not that it would be enforced if it is) to switch your lights on at least an hour before sunset, as well as for an hour after sunrise. Vehicles having lights on at those times is useful for visibility.

B

[Mike Hoxbig]

I'd be happy if someone explained to those tjops that insist on driving in daylight with their brights on that it doesn't make them more visible than the lesser beings

Let's not even get into a discussion about the knobs who see this as an opportunity to use their fogs.

[Dolby]

I don't drive with my lights on - but I'm after last week in the rain, I think I'm going to start.

I've got a sapphire blue Golf and this idiot in a Suburu didn't check his blind spot and nearly hit me :/

[Archer]

Not at all it means that this topic has been flogged to death on various threads and you always end up with the same arguments being bandied about. By all means run in the dark, just don't kill anyone else but yourself in the process, because they cannot see you coming.

"Run in the dark"?? Who said anything about that? When it is overcast/raining, switch on your main lights. When it is close to dusk/dawn, switch on your main lights. When its night, switch on your main lights. When the sun is shining, do not switch on your main lights. Like I said, there are reasons why proper DRLs are not as bright as main lights.

[Fazda]

I don't drive with my lights on - but I'm after last week in the rain, I think I'm going to start.

I've got a sapphire blue Golf and this idiot in a Suburu didn't check his blind spot and nearly hit me :/

:D:D:D:p

[Pr⊕phet]

lol, look i was just interested in if you did start driving with your lights on recently... do you still do it or have you stopped :)

[Fazda]

Always have done and nothing is going to convince me otherwise...;)

[Pitbull]

I used to do it even before this whole initiative. Then my bulbs started going after a few months, and at R300 a pop I'm not prepared to keep doing it.

What a crock of shyt :D

I call BS

[Mossie05]

All I want to know is how can some people think they can drive on our national roads with "park lights".
Aren't they for parking or have I missed the class for parking at 120km/h.

[Fazda]

All I want to know is how can some people think they can drive on our national roads with "park lights".
Aren't they for parking or have I missed the class for parking at 120km/h.

Agreed!

P A R K means exactly that...when the car is parked and standing still. I officially recognise those fools as the ones who think they will run their batteries flat if they switch the headlights on. :rolleyes:

[milomak]

been doing it for the past 7 or so years.

[lancebregman]

Driving with your headlights on makes you more visible yes. That's why bikers do it.

Forgetting your lights on...
Most cars nowadays make a noise of some kind if you forget to switch your lights off.

I think it is mostly a personal choice if you drive with your lights on or not.

It should only be compulsory during poor visibility conditions.
I use the guideline of: If I do not need my sunglasses to dampen the light enough to make seeing possible, my lights should be on.

[McGuywer]

Forgetting your lights on...
Most cars nowadays make a noise of some kind if you forget to switch your lights off.

If someone is complaining about forgetting their lights on, their cars surely does not have this feature.



It should only be compulsory during poor visibility conditions.
I use the guideline of: If I do not need my sunglasses to dampen the light enough to make seeing possible, my lights should be on.

That's a good guideline. Except I think that an hour before sunset or after sunrise, your lights should be on. No matter what.