Lights on during daylight hours.

Most all of our driving is done on rural roads. Tree lined roads means that vehicles transition often from sunlight to shade. With logging trucks, semi trucks carrying mill chips, and wide and slow moving farm equipment on the roads having my lights on seems prudent.

Silent

My 2019 Acura MDX keeps them on when I drive, and I can't turn them off. And yes, it's the first thing I tried when I bought the car.

Still going, huh. My new truck has the new style DRLs that wrap around the headlights and grill. My old truck, 2013, didn’t have that. I used to run down the road with park lights on all the time. The truck was black, and we live out of town off two-lane. Just seemed like a good idea; somebody is going to pass another vehicle, and I think the lights help see the truck earlier, and better judge distance for that guy oncoming in my lane.

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Originally posted by onegeek:
How, exactly?

Two quick examples... rainy days, poor visibility. Say you're trying to pull out onto a highway. You can see all the cars with their lights on, but that makes it that much harder or impossible to see the ones that don't have lights.

Another way that I see A LOT around here, people driving at night with their lights off. They must get in and start off and the DRL's are just enough for them to see. Either because they're bright enough or they started from somewhere with street lights. They don't think about the fact that they have no lights on (no tail lights), they're driving blacked out from the rear and people nearly run into the back of them.

I drive my work car for just less than 8 hours. When I go in at 0630hrs, my lights have to be on. I typically forget about them and when I go home a little after 2 and turn the car off for the first time it reminds me that my headlights are on. I just forget.

DRL's always on, headlights on auto...pretty much a no brainer.

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
DRL's always on, headlights on auto...pretty much a no brainer.

^^^ This.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
How about "No, for other reasons"?

This. No, because mine are automatic on my truck.

Our "grant happy" state police have managed to get nearly every highway in our state turned into "safety zones"....which required headlights to be on.

Of course it's selectively enforced...but I don't need to give extra reasons to pull me over when I'm likely already speeding a bit anyway.

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Originally posted by cas:


Another way that I see A LOT around here, people driving at night with their lights off...

I went "away" last weekend. Five hour drive home, less than three of which are on the New York State Thruway. In those < 3 hours, I ran across FOUR cars doing this very thing, driving with no lights, all had DRL on, so I imagine for the same reason I stated. "Luckily" they all seemed to drive WELL in excess of the speed limit, so the chances of people running into them was reduced.

Speaking of running into people, a side rant again about DUI... dear weed smokers, can't you fucking go anywhere without doing it? I was almost in a multi car pile up, bad circumstance where all the right/wrong factors aligned and almost caused a disaster. Speed limit's 65, so most of the traffic is going... well, at a bare minimum of 65. (I was driving in the right lane, 65-70 and the left lane folks were going by my like my parking brake was on)
Anyway... several cars behind me in my lane, several cars in the left lane, a broke down tractor trailer on the shoulder, all met in the same spot around a bit of a bend. As well as a little old, poorly lit Subaru. The car was poorly lit, the driver was not. He must have been well lit. Driving a whopping 40 miles per hour. I know this because after me and four other cars nearly crashed trying not to run into him, each other or swerve off the road into the truck, I was stuck behind him a while. The overpowering weeds stink, even with my windows up was amazing. Jesus Christ people, wait till you get home.

I used to drive with them on but recently stopped. I saw no real advantage, nobody follows any traffic laws anymore so why put extra strain on my charging system.
I pass so many cars with the drivers head fully involved with there phones I doubt they will see my headlights during the day or react to them.

I would have voted 'No...because my car had DRLs.' I also leave the headlights on "Auto". My car also has auto dimming but when I noticed that they don't dim quickly enough to satisfy me, I turned that feature off. Finally, since I live in a community with lots of deer, I always drive with my fog lights on. They cast a wider beam that covers more of the local ditches and I get an earlier warning before they attempt suicide.

My stuff is too old to have daytime running lights. I only use my lights if it's getting dark or raining Louisiana law says must use them when raining.

My truck has an auto setting DRL during the day and come on at certain darkness. Alternatively I live in FL and it rains here every afternoon or so and headlights on when wipers are on is the law. And that actually really irritates me swing people no lights at all in the rain

My car is currently in a fail state that defaults the head & taillights to on...Along with some other symptoms.
Waiting to hear back from a vendor to make sure I order the right $$$ part.

It couldn't hurt to have them on.

Mandatory for one of my rides (BMW R1200GS).

So I run with the lights on in the car too.

During the day I leave mine off driving in the city and on the four lane interstate unless inclement weather. When I exit onto my two lane country blacktop I turn them on. There are few passable areas in the six miles to my house. I hope to be seen and avoid someone hitting me. There’ve been 6 fatalities in this stretch of road that I know of in the past 20 years and countless non-fatal. I was in a head-on accident over three years ago when someone was passing a grain truck on a blind hill when I was almost home.

Always on. On the motorcycles, I have bright yellow lights that stands out in traffic when most vehicles all have the same color lights.

May 1975 I had a head on collision on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. There was construction and Westbound traffic was routed onto the East bound lanes. My light blue van blended in with the heatwaves coming off the concrete surface and someone didn't see me and pulled out to pass. Boom. I don't recommend it. I am positive if I had headlights on he would've seen me and the entire episode never would've happened. I also didn't have my seat belt buckled and I am so lucky to be here typing this message. Today the seatbelt is buckled and lights are on.