Mine has DRL, I think. Everything is automatic with my headlights except for bright/dim when another car approaches at night. Otherwise, I don't ever touch them.

My previous vehicle used the headlights as DRLs. They were pretty close to the same intensity in either mode.

“Lights on for safety” has been a policy for some companies for half a century or more. I can see and be aware of an oncoming vehicle much farther away if it has its headlights on. No, that doesn’t matter much in city traffic which may be the only traffic someone experiences, but it matters in long stretches in rural area when it’s possible for drivers’ minds to wander.

As for automatic lights off, it’s another mystery why it took so long for manufacturers to start making that a feature, along with (normally) always on when in gear like my current car. The last time I forgot that my headlights were on was in Iceland 30+ years ago where it was a requirement when driving. Fortunately then and there other drivers were so used to the problem that I got an immediate jump from a stranger in the same parking lot.

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Originally posted by MagnumU:
God's Honest Truth - the Other Side told my wife to drive with the headlights on.

She held a seance?


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Originally posted by Jupiter:
I hate to hear that but I do understand, vthoky. I've had a few close calls over the last couple of years. I came inches from hitting a deer while I was doing 50 MPH and less than 2 minutes later, a dog ran out in front of me, barely missing me once again. Needless to say, I was done riding for the day.

I'd have been done quickly that day, too, man!
A big ol' chunk of 4x4 in the road was what most recently got my sudden attention. Man, if I'd hit that thing... ugh.

Beautiful afternoons like today, though, I really miss my VFR800.

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
I hate to hear that but I do understand, vthoky. I've had a few close calls over the last couple of years. I came inches from hitting a deer while I was doing 50 MPH and less than 2 minutes later, a dog ran out in front of me, barely missing me once again. Needless to say, I was done riding for the day.

I'd have been done quickly that day, too, man!
A big ol' chunk of 4x4 in the road was what most recently got my sudden attention. Man, if I'd hit that thing... ugh.

Beautiful afternoons like today, though, I really miss my VFR800.

Houston traffic is part/most of the reason I gave up 2 wheels, for now.
Need to get the Midget back in roadworthy [fuel pump & ignition switch] shape again & start putting some miles on it.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Houston traffic is part/most of the reason I gave up 2 wheels, for now.

Houston traffic is enough to make a man give up 4 wheels.

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Originally posted by Jupiter:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Houston traffic is part/most of the reason I gave up 2 wheels, for now.

Houston traffic is enough to make a man give up 4 wheels.

At least it's typically moving, which is more than can be said for Austin traffic.

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Originally posted by egregore:
I'm curious about the "pooh-pooh-ers" who say day headlights are dumb. Reasons?

I'll give one reason in the specific circumstance where Mr. Motorcycle had his brights on today.
Any vehicle (particularly motorcycles) that run w/ brights make it very difficult to discern their speed and distance as they approach. I had one today, all you could see was a blinding solar flare and nothing else. I saw the light but nothing else.
And yes, I've got a bike but never use brights unless necessary.
And yes, this case is circumstantial but I've seen more than a few bikers do this.

Other than the big baggers with solar flare LEDs, the only motorcycles I typically see with their brights on, are sportbikes where the low beam is only 1 headlight.

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Originally posted by dsiets:
a blinding solar flare

"Guh-huk! But ya saw me, didn'tcha?"

(Yes, I've heard that directly.)

I've grown to hate daytime running lights. In a few ways they are safer, but I think in more ways they are dangerous.

I drive a fleet vehicle that is issued to me (I'm allowed unlimited personal use I just need to log mileage). It's company policy that headlights be activated while the vehicle is in motion.

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Originally posted by cas:
I've grown to hate daytime running lights. In a few ways they are safer, but I think in more ways they are dangerous.

How, exactly?

There are great drivers sharing the road with me there are good, ok not so good bad horrible drivers sharing the streets
As well as physically impaired drivers, distracted drivers ,

Drivers w/o driving abilities, w/o insurance .

Why would I ( as a responsible driver)
NOT do everything available to me to be seen

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Originally posted by cas:
I've grown to hate daytime running lights. In a few ways they are safer, but I think in more ways they are dangerous.

How, exactly?

Best example I have is the Nissans with overly bright DRLs where drivers don't realize their lights aren't on.
Then there's the Dodges that just run around with only their fogloghts on.

Don’t forget Cadillac, when it comes to solar-flare LED arrays as DRLs.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Here in PA we are required to put lights on when wipers are on, ie: rainy days. It's pretty much become a regular habit for me.

The people that make me scratch my head are the ones with flashers on driving, what the hell is up with that?

I've done that before in short stretches of highway where drivers are running well above 75, and some faster, in very crowded conditions packed like sardines, in the most right hand lane, because I wasn't willing to crank it up to 80 in super heavy traffic with everyone in tailgate mode. When it get really crazy like that, I may set myself in the right hand lane at 75 with my flashers on. It gives the crazies more notice to begin their high speed sudden pass around my vehicle a few feet more clearance than they would otherwise, since they time their lane changes at high speed last at the last second with very little clearance between me and whoever else they are screwing with in my immediate vicinity. So when it gets crazy to that degree, instead of cranking it up to 80+, I'll back down to below 75, and put the flashers on. It seems a little safer for me to survive those conditions rather than testing my driving skills with much younger drivers with much newer vehicles. It's self preservation for me, not being a jerk with flashers or anything like that.

I can’t vote for two.
Lights on for safety, I like to be seen.
Lights on for my classy ride! My 15 year old Ford Raptor has the three lights in the grille that everybody and their seven drunken cousins copy by putting 3-5 lights in the their grilles. Ford did it for a reason, you’re a poor copycat!

Both of our vehicles have DRL. They do help on rainy days and approaching twilight.