How fast do you drive on the motorway?

[Peter Mugridge]

Some of them are quite bright though. Such as those on the newer Mercs E classes and so on.

When my dad had a v70 a lot of people kept flashing him as they 'believed' he left the lights on, but was just the DRL. Also eclipse i know what you mean. Ok not on a motorbike but on a normal pushbike, they barely ever notice or check.

Chris

This makes interesting reading, especially the studies of the effects of DRL in countries which already have it... http://www.dadrl.org.uk/

 

[LE Greys]

Well, I know I'd find DRLs useful as a pedestrian. I'm constantly being surprised by black, grey or silver cars appearing out of my peripheral vision. Depending on light conditions, all these colours show up badly against tarmac, almost as though they were camouflaged. Wearing round-lens glasses probably does not help, approaching vehicles are slightly outside the frames. DRLs would be very helpful in dealing with that, although I would prefer to see all road vehicles with large yellow warning panels.
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Something like this

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I like the look of that car!

 

[jon0844]

Silver cars can virtually disappear on wet roads if the light is right (or wrong!), as the spray effectively works like a very effective Sci-Fi like cloaking device.

Given people think lights are only to see, not to be seen, they won't even turn their lights on in the rain if it's daylight - so DRL can only be a good thing in my opinion.

http://www.dadrl.org.uk/ - what a HORRID site (or is that sight?!) and somewhat biased I'd imagine! And this image on the home page is supposed to hide a motorcyclist? I can see the bike - and surely anyone else can too?

 

[LE Greys]

Silver cars can virtually disappear on wet roads if the light is right (or wrong!), as the spray effectively works like a very effective Sci-Fi like cloaking device.

Given people think lights are only to see, not to be seen, they won't even turn their lights on in the rain if it's daylight - so DRL can only be a good thing in my opinion.

http://www.dadrl.org.uk/ - what a HORRID site (or is that sight?!) and somewhat biased I'd imagine! And this image on the home page is supposed to hide a motorcyclist? I can see the bike - and surely anyone else can too?

Light coming towards you means don't pull out/cross road. Simple!

 

[jon0844]

Yes, and as a driver, I think I managed to learn fairly early on not to look directly at headlights as they come towards you. It seems that in this attempt to cope with idiots, you have sites like this being set up. Sites with example photos that don't exactly prove the argument!

Now, if a car is parked on the wrong side of the road and has the lights on, that can cause problems as you pass the beam that would normally be angled away, but that's not an argument against cars having lights on!

I've seen many new cars with DRL and think they're just fine. They also use virtually no power, which is another win. I also spend quite a lot of time in Sweden and haven't ever been blinded or found things disappearing. Try looking at the sun when driving then see how much of anything you can see!