An Observation - Fog Lights

The one's that give me the Tom Tits are the small Jap cars with the fog markers on the rear (bright red). In traffic at night you tend to get a flash every now and then and you are not sure if the traffic up ahead is breaking or it's just some twit that has left the fog marke on.
My winge for the day
Vince

I'll be in this.

My peeve is people who dont drive with their lights on at night when it's raining.

My guess is they are concerntrating so hard on the road out there, they forget themselves.

I also don't like Sam Newman. I think he is a pricke

It s one of those things....its illegal in most states to use these fog lights (very different from daytime driving lights) unless you are in poor weather conditions ie FOG!! As others have said before that the rear facing red warning light is about 21Watts the same wattage as a brake light! Very blinding in good weather.

I have had mates fined upto $70 for using their 'Fog' lights in the day and I personally was glad! Although they aim low, most do not have diffusers in the lens to stop the light shining upinto oncoming traffics eyes, no probs in fog, the light shines below the fog line!! But during day or mostly at night they anoy the $hit out of me and I have to look down to not be dazzled.

If you are inclinded to disagree, grab a veh fitted with these and drive down a dark road and give the fog lights a few flashes. Watch the tree line and see how high the light illuminates!
So I now have the annoying habbit of shining MY foglights and then spotties into any oncoming w__ker that descided to blind me! Even have rear facing lights if they come up from behind!

Sorry if this sounds like it a bleat but until the police start to police it...its a safety concern not just a bug bare!!!

I drive with my headlights ALWAYS. It's just a habbit now, I start the engine and put the lights on, doens't matter what vehicle, daytime, nighttime, whatever. If people don't want to do the same, that's fine. But what REALLY GIVES ME THE WHOOPSIES is idiots driving dark coloured cars in the pooring rain with no lights on. And the same thing as Rod, this morning driving through the pea soup (It was shocking past Whiteman park in between those low lying padocks). As I was going through some of the thickest areas of fog out pops a white falcon ute flying along at 100+ k's an hour with about 200m visibility at most with no lights on. I didn't see the drongo until he was passing my drivers door! IDIOTS! The amount of cars I saw this morning at about 8am dirving along in this fog without lights on was incredible. I guess it's the old saying, "I'm alright, who gives ableepabout anyone else".

Hi folks, I think the laws governing the use of fog lights are now standard nation wide.
It is illegal to operate fog lights in anything but adverse weather conditions and even then, they must be turned off for approaching vehicles.

Heres some unknown facts.

Most so called fog lights are actually driving fog lights which means they will light up the road for a distance in front of the vehicle but as they are adjusted so high they are useless as fog lights and are really only wanker lights.

Properly fitted fog lights actually point down and are only intended to light up the roadway in front of the car for about 1 or 2 metres max.

When driving at night with your fog lights on, because they give such a bright spot up close to the vehicle, you will actually reduce your long range vision so at the very time you need to see in front of you while on low beam because of an on coming vehicle, you only succeed in make your visibility worse.

I’m with those above who put their high beam and driving lights on when wankers come the other way with fog lights on and with my roof lights on I put out over 900 watts so I can see fineand stuff them. By the way, in most states the find is the same for having your fog lights on while passing on coming traffic as it is for using your high beam and driving lights.

On driving with lights on during the daylight, noticed that last year in the USA the newer cars have their headlights switch on automatically when the engine is running
Ray