Driving with headlights on

Nerfherder said:
Oncoming cars with their lights shining in your eyes ? Thats more than enough reason.

Its retarded, makes no sense whatsoever.
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Nerfherder said:
Like I said... a lot of cars don't have fancy day beams, and others put their brights on.
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and every car has normal headlights (not brights) honestly dude can you please explain to me how normal headlights (Not brights) shining in your eyes be a problem. If normal headlights (not brights) are a problem how do you drive at night?

Maybe a pointless exercise but don't see how anyone driving in the daytime even if the sun is shining brightly with his headlights (not brights) on be really an issue for you?

I know i repeated the not brights thing a lot cause ya brights are freaking annoying! but normal headlights umm no.
 
My car sleeps outside, I stay near the beach, so often early morning I have strong rays of sunshine shining directly onto a grimy window.

Through this window I will see a light a hell of a lot faster than a metal object.

So the argument for headlights always on is more than valid on these grounds alone.

If you are blinded by cars with their lights on in the day then hell it must be scary driving at night where the beam is about 100x more prominent, never mind brights (which doesn't blind me in the day at all, its just annoying)
 
Tango said:
Arguments in favor of the “Lights on” Campaign

It is easier to see cars in low light situations – especially oncoming vehicles
It is easier to spot cars in glare, shade, dusk, etc. when the vehicles drive with their lights on
Your attention is grabbed a bit faster and it gives a few spilt seconds more to react, adjust etc – split seconds that could make a difference in dangerous situations
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Lets go through those points
1) Thats already law
2) Thats already law
3) You are distracted easier by lights that were not designed for day use (as opposed to proper DRLs)

I mean really? Which road user cant see another road user in broad daylight in an urban setting just because they dont have their lights on? I'll tell you - someone who is legally blind.
 
I suspect most people sitting in an office thinking about this forget about some of the strange lighting conditions you encounter on roads, good clear visibility is not always available
 
grim said:
Yes, cause saving R200 a year is worth increasing your chances of being in a car accident.

Love the logic.
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Are you telling us that in broad daylight in an urban environment you struggle to see other vehicles if they do not have their lights on?
 
The fact that people get naar when other people drive with low beam, dipped beam, drl or whatever type of lights on,
proves the freaking point that you are noticed more with your lights on. You are now more aware of me because my lights were on, objective achieved!
Thus the one who is irritated, is aware of me, and is less likely to collide with me! Thank you.

As for driving with brights on during the day, I think that's been spoken about already.
 
Archer said:
Are you telling us that in broad daylight in an urban environment you struggle to see other vehicles if they do not have their lights on?
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I'm sure a lot of people aren't saying that.
What they are saying is that you are more noticeable with some sort of lighting!
 
I always drive with my lights on, if it irritates some moron that doesn't think it's beneficial well tough.

In-depth crash studies have shown that not having seen the other road user or having seen the other road user too late plays a role in 50% of the daytime crashes, and for intersection crashes this is even 80%. Theoretical insight and observations mainly attribute the DRL effect to the greater contrast between vehicles and their surroundings; DRL increases the visibility of vehicles and makes them better identifiable (recognizable as an oncoming motor vehicle). An additional effect is that vehicles with DRL are estimated to be closer than they really are. This reduces risk taking by drivers of oncoming vehicles preparing to overtake another vehicle and by road users crossing the street or entering an intersection.

DRL is a tool to assist road users in their visual observation task. DRL studies in the 1990s indicated reductions of 10-15% (Elvik, 1996) and 8-22% (Koornstra, 1993) in the numbers of daytime crashes in which two or more road users were involved.

The 2003 study commissioned by the EC involved a meta-analysis of 41 studies of the effect for cars and 16 studies of the effect for motorcycles (Elvik et al., 2003). This showed that for cars DRL reduces the number of daytime injury crashes by 3-12%. The effect on fatal crashes can be estimated as somewhat greater (-15%). For motorcycles DRL reduces the number of injury crashes by 5-10%. For these categories we should mention that the results found per individual study differ widely.
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source
 
Archer said:
Are you telling us that in broad daylight in an urban environment you struggle to see other vehicles if they do not have their lights on?
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Maybe not him, but it might just be the thing that catches the attention of the hordes who spend the time behind the wheel on their phones, instead of, you know - paying attention to the road & other cars.
 
Ok smart people. If lights are the be all and end all of being seen why do I still not get seen with a freaking orange cover on my headlight, and 2 more spots to the side of it? It really doesnt get more out of the ordinary than that and yet the end result is the same. The root cause of the problem is not being addressed at all. You're just creating an environment where everyone will have lights, and everyone will then be just as "invisible" as they are now.
 
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