Foglights

Submitted: Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003 at 15:41
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Does anyone feel the same way as I do about those damn foglights that are now fitted to lots of new cars? The people that drive around with these lights illuminated at the same time as their dipped headlights annoy the hell out of me. I believe this practice to be totally inconsiderate, anti-social and stupidly misguided.
Foglights are designed to be a wide flat beam to illuminate the road in fog without causing dazzle by lighting up the fog itself. They should be used (in fog) with only side (parking) lights. It strikes me that the miscreants are just showing off and are often the same people who are hanging too close to your tail when you're already doing 105k's on the freeway, hasseling and dazzling at the same time. The problem is exacerbated by the manufacturers, whose switching design allows the foglights to work at the same time as the headlights. My Mark 2 Jag had foglights,and the switch allowed either headlights or foglights, designed in 1962! Similarly those European or Jap cars with rear foglights are equally annoying when the driver (also misguided) uses them in rain. We just don't have the necessary conditions to need them, (although my LandRover has a rear foglight). They're designed to stop tailend collisions on European freeways when the visibility is down to nearly zero. Even out on the Calder where I live (Gisborne, Woodend area) it would rarely get bad enough for that, and even then they should be turned off when the car behind gets close enough to know you're there. Any comments?
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