About usefulness of DRLs. They have been proven to work well here in Canada.
And personally,
I can judge the speed better, when someones comes towards me than without
any DRLs. And mostly,
lots of people don't bother putting lights before sunset or sunrise, making
them difficult to see and there are some jackasses that
don't put lights even in the heaviest rain fall, fog or snow storm.


<dold@XReXXEnabl.usenet.us.com> wrote in message
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> In rec.autos.makers.honda Alex Rodriguez <adr5@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> It is stupid that an insurance company would give a discount for
>> something
>> that has no proven benefits. Also, high beam DRL's are stupid because
>> the
>> aiming of the light puts it right at eye level of other road users. Even
>> at reduced voltage, it is annoying.
>
> Is that why some Ford SUVs and trucks appear to have their high beams on?
> Now that I have lowered my eye level by buying a Honda Civic, I notice
> glaring headlights in my rearview mirror. They are almost always Fords.
> Studying the annoying light after flipping the mirror to "night", it seems
> like the lens is fully illuminated, unlike the half-lit appearance of a
> low
> beam. It doesn't seem likely that all of these folks are running on high
> beam, but I might believe that they have their headlights off, enabling
> DRL. The fact that their headlights is right at my eye level doesn't
> help,
> but most other SUVs and trucks don't have that effect.
>
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> Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5
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