Re: Daytime Running lights
What a topic!
I'm concerned that my reply may be judged as a 'Liberal-Commie' threat or something but here's my thoughts.
I live in both Canada and the US (I am a US Citizen), so I know both countries pretty well, and at first I hated Daylight Running Lights up here mostly cause they were new and can't be turned off and also didn't believe the reported safety advantages. I'm a former Calif resident and I know that many Americans feel they are being blinded by a Canadian vehicles with DRLs travelling on their roads, but the funny thing is that nobody up here is blinded by on-coming traffic with DRLs. Canadians have different eyes? -Don't know.
The US Transportation Saftey Commission claims they have evidence that operating vehicles with Daylight Running Lights reduces the overall accident rate on major routes they studied by between 25% and 40%. Fact or Fiction...don't know how they got their numbers.
Some web blogs I've read claim a conspiracy theory by auto makers or just plain arrogance that Americans don't need such extra 'safety' stuff on their cars.
Commercial and professional drivers seem to either not mind or outright endorse them so I guess I don't see what the big objections are.
They operate at either 75% of the lowbeam intensity or 20% of the highbeam intensity depending on the manufacturer and model of the vehicle and don't bog down the battery and bulb life significently.
-m
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