I can’t be the only one noticing this. At first I thought it was just new cars doing it (faulty automatic lights maybe?) but I see a lot of older cars without auto lights doing it too.
What is this, a new trend? Seems stupid.
EDIT: Turns out that’s the safer way to drive and I am the stupid one haha.
My car has driving lights that always stay on when it’s turned on, I remember learning in driver safety class headlights help increase visibility during the day, meaning other cars seeing you.
Oh, well that makes sense.
They told us driving with lights on reduced accidents by 30%. Don’t know if it was true, but I know it helps me when other drivers have their lights on in the day, particularly silver and white vehicles.
If it’s safer maybe I should start doing it too.
In some countries it’s even mandatory (like in Bulgaria)
My car is the opposite. If you turn the lights on during the day, the speedometer and tachometer get too dark to see so you can’t have the lights on during the day and know how fast you’re going.
It’s objectively safer to have them on during the day, assuming they are properly adjusted.
The problem is cars in the US now come stock with blinding washed out misadjusted poorly designed headlights because if other people are going to blind you, why would you buy a car that doesn’t blind them back?
I fucking hate this country.
Yeah, daytime running lights are becoming the new norm
Personally, anything that helps these wackadoo truck drivers from slamming into me is a win in my book
Good.
Surprised it wasn’t mandated wherever you live.
In Argentina law says you must have your lights on when on roads since I can remember.
Australians are petit Americans. They hate being told they have to do something (unless it’s to save a business money)
Depends on where you live, in
the lights always have to be on even during the day.I’m all for people using headlights more often because most people have poor eyesight. The only problem is every car is a SUV so the headlights are right at eye level
They’re looking for an honest man
Ha!
Daytime running lights
Used to be the law here for a while, I think it still is in a lot of Nordic countries it’s about visibility some cars like Volvos automatically turn the lights on
it’s a safer way to drive. I don’t do it though and then also turn my headlights on way too late because I don’t notice how dark it is. I don’t mind it though. Better than those cars with those LED headlights that blind you at night at least.
My car looks cooler with the lights on. Also it’s dramatically safer.
As everyone else has already said, it’s been shown that it actually helps to reduce traffic accidents. I was unaware until this thread that it was legally mandatory in so many other places, but around where I live, there have always been “daytime headlight corridors,” sections of roads and highways with signs up informing drivers their headlights should be on for the next however many miles/kilometers. I was told that their purpose was to study whether daytime headlights did in fact help in a statistically significant way. But I’m pretty sure that had already been established a long while back, and the corridors are just particularly dangerous stretches of highway with no physical barrier separating on-coming traffic, making daytime headlights along that section of road a very good idea.
The motorcycle I just bought doesn’t even have the option to turn the headlight off. Apparently on the European models the switch that turns on the high beams can also turn the lights off, but they use a different one for the American market for some kind of safety compliance reason.
Visibility.
Many cars have Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) that are always on so as to draw more attention to cars during times like dusk or dawn where light is waining and it’s not dark enough to trigger auto headlights.
