Man, so much miscommunication in here, a lot of it by the OP, Grampi. People who say they run their running lights when they're supposed to, their fog lights when they're supposed to, their DRL's when they're supposed to, etc are being chastised for doing what ever they want; every one else be darned.
Day-time running lights (DRL's) are very dim and are only on during the day. Even if they were both adjustable so that they could point directly at your eyeball during the day, it wouldn't be enough to make you notice. They're there to make the car visible to others, not to illuminate the road ahead nor for foggy conditions.
MOST OEM foglights are mounted very low in the bumper and MOST are pretty worthless WRT foggy-condition illumination. If you're saying that every one of these lights blinds you, then you're thinking of the wrong lights. I very rarely notice OEM foglights that are so out of alignment that they cause anything more than a, "oh, hey, his lights are out of alignment; sucks for him/her." Aftermarket fog lights that people just screw into their bumpers are another story and go along with misaligned headlights in general.
Driving lights are usually mounted at the same level as the headlights or above, and are used, as has been mentioned, to case a very wide, bright beam of light to illuminate everything. While some cars come with this as an OEM feature - does any one know if these, say, on a Mini Cooper are just for show or are they actual driving lights? - most are aftermarket and follow the same rules as misaligned headlights or running with your highbeams on. No one should be driving with driving lights on except in instances where high beams are necessary. I rarely see these installed OEM on cars, so if you're seeing the lights that bother you often, these aren't it, either.
Finally, HID retro kits. In both halogen (non-HID) and HID projector housings there's a little metal tab. Since the projector projects such a fine beam of light with a very sharp cutoff, this tab is used to produce some designed-in glare to illuminate road signs and such. Since halogen (non-HID) lights are not nearly as intense as HID lights, the tab is larger to produce the same amount of necessary glare. The problem arises when some one retro-fits an HID kit or bulb and ballast from another HID car into their non-HID projector housing. The combination of the high intensity light with the larger tabs results in a cutoff that looks normal to the guy installing the kit, but excessive glare to every one else on the road!
Everything else, like I said above, is either people not knowing they're driving with highbeams on, improperly adjusted headlights or some combination of [censored] aftermarket parts with bad alignment.
Again, I haven't read any posts here where some one said they specifically run with their high-beams or driving lights ON while around other cars or in the city, so please stop arguing who aren't doing anything wrong.
