Why don't you read for meaning next time.
There's a big difference. US DOT headlamps on many cars are so s***ty that I have often driven and not noticed they were off.
No, just regular suburbia about one street lamp every 3/4 block or so.
Learn to read asshole.
May you always be faced with saturns in the oncoming lane.
Hint: high beam DRLs are legal in north america.
For you? OK, you're driving along in your DRL-equipped car, and a car coming the other way pulls out to pass. He sees your DRLs, but has trouble judging the distance of your car because other distance cues are lost in the glare. He misjudges you as being far away, when you are actually close, and WHAM!
Well, Watson, it's neither mine nor asinine, and it is not a proposition. It's scientifically tested and known fact.
Not if your position is misjudged. It is safer to be seen later and accurately than earlier and inaccurately.
Oncoming car sees you at T=1.0 second, by your Daytime Running Lamps which are approximately 11 inches apart on a car 69 inches wide. By the fact the lamps are so close together, he misjudges you to be very far away, and pulls out to pass another car in his lane or initiates a left turn across your lane. WHOAH, you weren't far away, you were close! Whoops. Much better if the oncoming car saw you at T=1.5 seconds without DRL and got an immediate and accurate reading of your position and distance (and better still if he sees you at T=1.0 second by properly implemented DRL which do not create distance perception problems).
Please do not put your words in my mouth -- I have no idea where they've been.
DS
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