Motorists!

[Ragingrob]

Well I turn the fog lights on when driving my gf's car, yes they must be fog lights as the switch has a kinda hazy fog image on it, and they are neither aimed at peoples eyes nor blinding in any way possible. They are below the headlights and are my preference to driving with headlights one when it's not dark.

[Qkchk:Me]

Fog lights are often lower on the vehicle than the headlights (they work much better if they are as far away from eye height as possible) and they normally have a wide spread beam.

Driving lights a well focused beams that are suppose to only come on with the high beam lights.



The relevant lines from that link are

"They give off a short, wide beam of light that is designed to shine through the fog, lighting up the area directly in front of the vehicle and helping the driver see the sides of the road better."

Cheers R

Taken off a website

"Fog lights work together with your low-beams to improve your visibility in foul weather, such as fog, rain, snow and mist. They emit a low, wide pattern of light that's designed to shine below the haze. This reduces the amount of blinding glare that occurs when you turn on your hi-beams in foggy weather."

So those lights fitted at the bottom are classed as Fog lights, hence should not be used?

I have always known them as 'Driving Lights' or as 'Daytime Running Lights'. Some trucks use LED strips or the orange LED blocks for the same job.

This is where the law has been left behind with the times....

[Ragingrob]

Oh oh oh I know! Don't look at the shiny lights and you won't get blinded

[Sanx]

Driving lights - secondary sets of headlights, usually with the same pattern as full-beam.
Running-lights / sidelights / parking lights - low-intensity lights designed to improve the visibility of the vehicle in low-light conditions
Fog-lights - high intensity lights designed to help you see, or be seen, in impaired visibility conditions, like fog or heavy snow.

To that, you can also add the odd turning lights that seem to be fitted to many Japanese import cars triggered by the headlights being on and the indicator being activated.

Impaired visibility conditions does not equate to rain or darkness; it's where the atmospheric conditions mean you cannot see as far as usual. There's no hard and fast rule in NZ, but in many other countries it's taken to mean visibility is less than 100m or less than the distance equal to two seconds worth of driving.

[Nasty]

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[BMW_RACER]

Impaired visibility conditions does not equate to rain or darkness; it's where the atmospheric conditions mean you cannot see as far as usual. There's no hard and fast rule in NZ, but in many other countries it's taken to mean visibility is less than 100m or less than the distance equal to two seconds worth of driving.

OH LOL.

Darkness dosent impair your vision and neither does rain?
AHAHAHAHAHAH

[Gubb]

OH LOL.

Darkness dosent impair your vision and neither does rain?
AHAHAHAHAHAH

Did you actually read his quote?

[Sanx]

OH LOL.

Darkness dosent impair your vision and neither does rain?
AHAHAHAHAHAH

Very heavy rain does, but not to the point that high-visibility lights are required. And no, darkness does not impair my vision.

Fuckwit.

[cooneyr]

Taken off a website

"Fog lights work together with your low-beams to improve your visibility in foul weather, such as fog, rain, snow and mist. They emit a low, wide pattern of light that's designed to shine below the haze. This reduces the amount of blinding glare that occurs when you turn on your hi-beams in foggy weather."

So those lights fitted at the bottom are classed as Fog lights, hence should not be used?

I have always known them as 'Driving Lights' or as 'Daytime Running Lights'. Some trucks use LED strips or the orange LED blocks for the same job.

This is where the law has been left behind with the times....

I think I know the ones you mean - the Nissan's trucks often have square lights down in the bumper below the normal head lights. I think these are actually driving lights. For other trucks, if they are LED's or pencil type beams they will be driving lights.

Fog lights are usually pretty obvious (on a car in NZ) because they are big round orible looking things ~300mm diameter. Lots of Merivale tractors (and other wannaby 4wd's) are actually driving around with fog lights not driving lights.

Cheers R

[Dave Lobster]

Seems like an apt time to post this pic

[nivram]

I was talking about those rear fog lights they drive me mad when there on during a clear day, BMW drivers are the worst for this.

[rudolph]

Stupid holdens with there gay driving lights

[BMW_RACER]

I was talking about those rear fog lights they drive me mad when there on during a clear day, BMW drivers are the worst for this.

Proballay because mostly euro cars are the only cars with rear fog lights.
If all the jap cars had rear fogs they would all have their rear fogs on aswell