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"Another place the radar is invaluable? In fog. I drive over the Santa Cruz mountains every day to get home and there often is fog. One day there was a car in f
by dghughes 17y ago
"Another place the radar is invaluable? In fog. I drive over the Santa Cruz mountains every day to get home and there often is fog. One day there was a car in front of me that had no back taillights."
I bet the driver of that car was just using parking lights. I hate that! People who drive with parking lights on don't seem to realize the rear running lights are not on, parking lights are not meant to be used when driving that's what headlights are for.
- mmastrac 17y agoDaytime running lights are mandatory in Canada. Not sure why they aren't in the USA. If the car is out of park, the headlights turn on automatically. It solves a handful of issues like this that are potentially dangerous.
- sokoloff 17y agoIt specifically does not solve the "no rear lamps" issue. In fact, it exacerbates it.
- mmastrac 17y agoNot true. Every car in Canada engages headlights and rear tail lights when the car is out of park, regardless of the headlight settings. The only thing effectively controlled by the headlight knob outside of park is the dashboard lights.
- sokoloff 17y agoInteresting; I did not know that. In the US, every DRL that I've seen lights only one pair of front lamps (usually the headlamps at partial power, but some models light other front lamps).
- sokoloff 17y agoI've never seen a car where the "first click" of lights (what I presume you're calling parking lights) doesn't turn on the taillights. In most cars, they're even on the same fuse. (Yes, there are cars with true one-sided parking lamps that will only illuminate one side front-and-rear to mark the edge of the car parked closest to the road.) I suspect what you're actually seeing is drivers using only the daytime running lights. Those do not turn the rear lamps on.