Automatic Headlights - Fog - Idiots

[sunny-dave]

I've done a couple of hundred miles on foggy motorways and A roads this week - most of the time it was bad enough to need my hi-intensity rears on for safety.

Yet there were dozens (hundreds?) of newish cars - top of the range models usually - with no rear lights on at all, and only 'running lights' at the front (if anything).

I was chuntering away at the idiocy of these people when I twigged the problem - my Audi didn't think it was dark enough in the bright, daylight fog to need any lights on at all - so I had switched them on manually.

I presume the idiots driving along in a misty shroud had forgotten (if they ever knew) where the light switch is and that they are legally responsible for using it in conditions of reduced visibility.

A growing problem as more car lighting systems are automated it seems.

[Zacs-Master]

Melv, once again......
Your 'gas' foot is idle whilst CC is on. Why do you keep,saying 'lift your foot off'?

[stocksman]

Cactusdriver. I agree the high intensity rear fog lamps need to be used in poor visibility, but at the same time they should not be used unless visibility is poor. In good conditions it is distracting(to put it nicely)