When driving significant distances and on highways at night, or when out on remote dirt roads, driving lights are a necessity. They allow you to see hazards much further ahead and with a wider field of view — giving you more time to react to, and avoid, danger. As with high-beams, you must switch off your driving lights if you see a vehicle approaching. In fact, by law in Australia, driving lights must only be active when your high beams are switched on.
Therefore, front-facing driving lights must be wired to turn on and off alongside your high-beams. They can easily blind other road users — especially when utilising market leading technology.
This ensures superior clarity and a significant reduction in eye strain and fatigue, to get you home safely. It can refer to either round driving lights with a narrow beam pattern as opposed to light bar-style driving lights or to handheld spotlights. While it is possible, and even easy, to mount handheld spotlights to the roof of your vehicle, the only situation where you can do this is when hunting.
They should be used in addition to your normal headlights during difficult visibility. In contrast, driving lights are to be used with your high-beam headlights to spot obstacles in the distance. Driving lights produce a rectangular shaped pattern that is designed to extend beyond normal headlights.
The design of the light beam will help you see much further down the road as well as on the side of the road. Vehicles are typically equipped with both front and rear fog lights. However, even if the driver can see the road ahead, other drivers may not be able to distinguish objects clearly through the fog, mist, smoke, or other hazardous conditions.
Fog lights installed in the front of the car are usually white, though they can also be yellow or blue. Fog lights in the rear are always red. Fog lights are so strong that most regions outlaw their use except in cases of thick fog or other severe weather. If they are used under normal conditions, other drivers can be blinded by their brightness or distracted by their light pattern.
If this happens, the result could be a minor fender-bender or a serious accident. As soon as the fog clears or the mist dissipates, drivers should turn off their fog lights so as not to disturb or distract other drivers.
Drivers who use their fog lights when visibility is normal or only slightly reduced could be pulled over by an officer. They may even face a fine if the officer deems the use of the fog lights inappropriate given the weather conditions. Driving lights are even stronger than fog lights are. They have a narrow, straight beam, and they are installed on the front of the car, pickup truck , or SUV.
Driving lights are always white, since white lights are more powerful in the dark than yellow or red are. Driving lights can be switched on in addition to the regular high beam headlights. Many drivers use them while off-roading or traversing dark, deserted country roads. Driving lights are designed to send powerful beams far ahead, illuminating the next stretch of road that drivers have to traverse. Driving lights should be wired to engage only when the high beams are in use.
Since they are so powerful, they should never be employed around other drivers. The bright lights can be a distraction for them, taking their attention away from the road.
Even a momentary distraction can cause an accident, ranging from a minor incident to a severe wreck involving injury to drivers and to passengers. Some areas enforce penalties for the inappropriate use of driving lights. To fully understand the intended purpose and correct use of driving lights and fog lights, car owners should also know the function of the other types of lights on their car.
The chart below explains the difference between these other lights. They have the choice to turn them off but must think they are either needed for normal night driving they're not , or think they look cool they don't. If you want better visibility buy some propperly mounted spot driving lights which they use quite commonly in scandinavia. Bluebarge 4, posts months. Call me strange but I have never had an issue with people running fog lights at night ecause as stated the range on them is quite short and they should be pointed downwards.
I get more fed up of modern cars 4x4s in particular due to the height of the ligthts that have HID kits with projectors which make light far too intense. I used to have a Xr2i and that had both driving and fog lights and on more than one ocassion i was stopped by the police and had to test all the lights to prove the outer pair only came on with full beam and werent on a fog light or seperate switch.
Do you think the Highway Code rules on fog lights were drawn up for aesthetic reasons? Rawwr 22, posts months. Well apart from possibly being of use by lighting up the verges of dark country roads and really thick fog.
What other practical purpose do they serve? Other than making the driver look like a nob. Here in Central Scotland we can get some real pea souper fogs, my first car had fog lights and one night the fog was extremely dense, the headlights just bounced glare back at me. I put the fog lights on and the headlights off, what an amazing difference, the fog lights got under the fog and picked out the roadside.
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