By complaining about people driving with parking lights, it proves you saw them and therefore didn't run into them!
Driving with parking lights on
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I have not turned on headlights/parking lights in over 5 years as my vehicle takes care of all that for me.
I couple of years ago I rented a Prius that didn't have automatic headlamps, very primitive.
I couple of years ago I rented a Prius that didn't have automatic headlamps, very primitive.
I do the opposite sometimes. My car has DRLs, but they are the regular headlights at about 75% power. The running lights are off unless I turn the stalk to the 1st position (running lights only) or the 2nd position (headlights on). So if I get in the car and start driving while it is still daylight out, but the sun goes down while i'm on the road I often forget to turn the headlights on. So i'm driving around with no running lights.
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Originally Posted By: morepwr
By complaining about people driving with parking lights, it proves you saw them and therefore didn't run into them!
That's not the point; the point is, that when you want to be visible during low-visibility situations, why would you cut such a trivial corner?
There are many black cars that I've not run into or cut off because I saw them with plenty of time, but there have also been a few close calls. For instance, I nearly pulled out in front of a silver Sentra who was driving way in excess of the speed limit one foggy morning. I probably would have had more warning were his parking lights on, but he would have been seen from even farther away with headlights on.
When the rising or setting sun is filling your windshield, parking lights don't really do much. I take more time while changing lanes over the last bridge before I get to work, when I leave for work late enough for the sun to be in my face, and thank the busy lane I merge into when I look over my shoulder and see their head lights, because every little bit counts when you're checking your blind spot for campers.
By complaining about people driving with parking lights, it proves you saw them and therefore didn't run into them!
That's not the point; the point is, that when you want to be visible during low-visibility situations, why would you cut such a trivial corner?
There are many black cars that I've not run into or cut off because I saw them with plenty of time, but there have also been a few close calls. For instance, I nearly pulled out in front of a silver Sentra who was driving way in excess of the speed limit one foggy morning. I probably would have had more warning were his parking lights on, but he would have been seen from even farther away with headlights on.
When the rising or setting sun is filling your windshield, parking lights don't really do much. I take more time while changing lanes over the last bridge before I get to work, when I leave for work late enough for the sun to be in my face, and thank the busy lane I merge into when I look over my shoulder and see their head lights, because every little bit counts when you're checking your blind spot for campers.
In my teen years I would drive with my parking lights on cause I thought it was cool. Many other teens did this as well. I remember being in school and looking over the student lot and always remember seeing a few cars that would forget and leave them on all day lol.
They are still called parking lights by those that are accustomed to calling them that. I the manuals, and technical stuff, they are called marker lights. And if Barney were to stop me for driving with my "parking lights" only on, I would be more than willing to contest the ticket in my state. As soon as they can determine thru the manual on my vehicle where the parking lights are, and then prove that they were on, then I will concede if they were. But I have looked all over my vehicles, checked out all the manuals, and I have yet to find any parking lights.
And lets be honest here... people do not go around leaving the marker lights on when they are parking somewhere. Like what? Do you see an entire Wally World lot all lit up in rows with "parking lights" on up and down every row on every vehicle? And I would have no problem contesting driving with my marker lights on only thing either. That is what they are for! To mark the outline of my vehicle for others to notice, Nimrod, er I mean, Officer.
And lets be honest here... people do not go around leaving the marker lights on when they are parking somewhere. Like what? Do you see an entire Wally World lot all lit up in rows with "parking lights" on up and down every row on every vehicle? And I would have no problem contesting driving with my marker lights on only thing either. That is what they are for! To mark the outline of my vehicle for others to notice, Nimrod, er I mean, Officer.
Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker
They are still called parking lights by those that are accustomed to calling them that. I the manuals, and technical stuff, they are called marker lights. And if Barney were to stop me for driving with my "parking lights" only on, I would be more than willing to contest the ticket in my state. As soon as they can determine thru the manual on my vehicle where the parking lights are, and then prove that they were on, then I will concede if they were. But I have looked all over my vehicles, checked out all the manuals, and I have yet to find any parking lights.
And lets be honest here... people do not go around leaving the marker lights on when they are parking somewhere. Like what? Do you see an entire Wally World lot all lit up in rows with "parking lights" on up and down every row on every vehicle? And I would have no problem contesting driving with my marker lights on only thing either. That is what they are for! To mark the outline of my vehicle for others to notice, Nimrod, er I mean, Officer.
after my failed stint in CDL OTR training, i've taken to calling them "4-ways" since that's what the instructors called 'em....
They are still called parking lights by those that are accustomed to calling them that. I the manuals, and technical stuff, they are called marker lights. And if Barney were to stop me for driving with my "parking lights" only on, I would be more than willing to contest the ticket in my state. As soon as they can determine thru the manual on my vehicle where the parking lights are, and then prove that they were on, then I will concede if they were. But I have looked all over my vehicles, checked out all the manuals, and I have yet to find any parking lights.
And lets be honest here... people do not go around leaving the marker lights on when they are parking somewhere. Like what? Do you see an entire Wally World lot all lit up in rows with "parking lights" on up and down every row on every vehicle? And I would have no problem contesting driving with my marker lights on only thing either. That is what they are for! To mark the outline of my vehicle for others to notice, Nimrod, er I mean, Officer.
after my failed stint in CDL OTR training, i've taken to calling them "4-ways" since that's what the instructors called 'em....
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