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OT: Rear light rant Posted by pme [Email]  (#1496)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from pme) on Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:14:06
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Just want to vent, so apologies......
I drive extensively on the NYS Thruway across Rockland and the TZB, then about 1/2 way across Westchester. You see lots of things when you drive as heavily a traveled route as this, ranging from the same two idiots in their 'rice rockets' playing chase across the TZB to Rockland in the morning to these two (the purpose of my rant......)
- Audi drivers who have their foglights on all the time, ignoring the fact that their rear fogs are also on, and right at eye level of the following car. Yes, I mean in clear weather, and no, not a dark and windy road -- its an interstate!.
IMO its a lousy design decision if one can't operate the fronts and rear fogs independently (like I can in my Saab), and lousy driving decision for unnecessary use of fogs (which I know is a ticketable offense in some places).
To those who say "just go around him". I do when I can, but it's not that easy to do in when all lanes are moving slowly during rush hours.
- Honda / Toyota drivers who drive at night with just DRLs on. I know it can happen with other cars, but I seem to see it more with these models. In these cases, the DRLs may light some lamps in the front of the car, and the dashboard lights, but they don't light the tail-lights. Invariably, the driver is oblivious, just thinks the headlights are a little dim and has no idea the rear of the car is invisible on a dark and rainy night.
At a minimum, please learn how to use your lights and how switch positions affect results. Maybe if the engineers didn't illuminate the dash lights with the DRLs, it would at least prompt people to turn the switch to remedy that.
Ugh -- sorry for the rant. I must be getting curmudgeonly in my old age......
(Sorry Scott -- feel free to move to General. That's where I thought I put it! Oops)
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