Drive with foglights on/off? - Page 3

UltimaLaw · 2005-12-08 21:03:27

Mine are on during rain and usually after dark. If there's a chance that someone might see me better and avoid accidents I'll have them on.

12-13-2005, 10:54 AM

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Cool-Blue-Dad

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Originally Posted by Astral

In clear conditions, more foreground light is not a good thing, it's a bad thing. {snip} If you increase the foreground light, your pupils react to the bright, wide pool of light by constricting, which in turn substantially reduces your distance vision-—especially since there's no increase in down-the-road distance light to go along with the increased foreground light. It's insidious, because high levels of foreground light give the illusion, the subjective impression, of comfort and security and "good lighting".

Basically, in non-foggy conditions, fog lights == more light in front == reduced distance vision == bad.

Having driven with my low beams, high beams and with fogs on and off I disagree with that allegation about the fogs constricting your pupils. The Xenons are *so* bright. The high-beams make the road signs glow so brightly that I actually squint. I don't notice any significant difference in the lighting of the road with or without foglights if I have my Xenons on. However, I think the 4-light look is cools. Others have commented on how nice/tough/evil it looks.

All of the driving light restrictions I have read related to driving with fogs only or parking lights only - idiots who turn on their parking lights at dusk and forget to turn on their headlights later at full dark. I know there are restrictions on spotlights, but I'll look for the NY DMV rules on also using fog/driving lights with the headlights.

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