Pea-souper = no fog lights. A little bit damp = fog lights!
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What's up with people?
This morning, it's a proper pea-souper. Haven't seen fog this bad in a good few years. Visibility less than 100 yards.
It's early, so not many cars around. Large gaps between means it's really time for the fog lights to come on.
Yet I seemed to be the only one. Many without even headlights - just looming out of the void at the last minute.
Yet, any decent rain and everyone turns on their fog lights. For the next three days.
Just don't understand.
This morning, it's a proper pea-souper. Haven't seen fog this bad in a good few years. Visibility less than 100 yards.
It's early, so not many cars around. Large gaps between means it's really time for the fog lights to come on.
Yet I seemed to be the only one. Many without even headlights - just looming out of the void at the last minute.
Yet, any decent rain and everyone turns on their fog lights. For the next three days.
Just don't understand.
In my experience majority of the time people put their rear fog lights on when they're not needed at all, and more annoyingly, can't seem to work out, you can turn them off when the situation changes, rather than leaving them on till they get to wherever they're going, in short people are f
king idiots.
king idiots.KingNothing said:
In my experience majority of the time people put their rear fog lights on when they're not needed at all, and more annoyingly, can't seem to work out, you can turn them off when the situation changes, rather than leaving them on till they get to wherever they're going, in short people are fking idiots.
This is all that needs to be said. Can t say as I ve needed rear fogs more than a handful of times. king idiots.See also tail gating, sitting in the middle lane, not indicating, messaging Sharon whilst circumnavigating a round about, oil below the minimum, nasty tyres with cords poking through, years of mould build up under the seats...
In short, for the vast majority, cars and the art of driving them is way way down their list of priorities and thus the standards associated with driving in the UK is pretty poor on the whole. Those who give driving their full focus day to day are likely a minority now.
In short, for the vast majority, cars and the art of driving them is way way down their list of priorities and thus the standards associated with driving in the UK is pretty poor on the whole. Those who give driving their full focus day to day are likely a minority now.
NDA said:
On the M3 (in fog) I'd say around 40% of drivers have no lights on at all.
I suspect they're set to 'auto' (as mine are) and people don't think to check.
Why are they called automatic headlights if they don't turn on automatically? You don't have to change your 8 speed auto using the paddles when it rains or there's fog. I suspect they're set to 'auto' (as mine are) and people don't think to check.
Some observations:
Most cars have substantial rear lamp clusters, so rear fogs are rarely needed unless the fog is really heavy.
I have used front fog lights seriously about 3 times in 60 years of driving. Always without dipped headlights which would have caused glare-back - driving snow in particular is best using fog lights and sidelights.
I see that the Honda Civic does not have front fog lamps, probably a good idea.
Most cars have substantial rear lamp clusters, so rear fogs are rarely needed unless the fog is really heavy.
I have used front fog lights seriously about 3 times in 60 years of driving. Always without dipped headlights which would have caused glare-back - driving snow in particular is best using fog lights and sidelights.
I see that the Honda Civic does not have front fog lamps, probably a good idea.
I often see it going over the Dales to Buxton. Wasn't anywhere near foggy enough in the east/west midlands journey for rear fog lights thismorning, only one car i saw with them on and quite frankly he was a damn nuisance.
As the poster above doubt i've used rear fogs this century apart from to check they're working, most of the time all they do is make life worse, instead of looking out for extra bright brake lights to illuminate somewhere in the mutiple vehicles ahead that early warning is lost due to multiple sets of extra bright rear lights being already illuminated.
I have driven in serious fog but thats going back 5 decades before rear fogs were a thing where 15mph was genuinely pushing it, when these lights first arrived many of those who had them switched the things on at the first sign of a damp road (look i've got a newer car than you with rear fogs), a wet motorway run became horrible because all you could see were dozens of dazzling red lights in which a set of brake lights would barely register.
As the poster above doubt i've used rear fogs this century apart from to check they're working, most of the time all they do is make life worse, instead of looking out for extra bright brake lights to illuminate somewhere in the mutiple vehicles ahead that early warning is lost due to multiple sets of extra bright rear lights being already illuminated.
I have driven in serious fog but thats going back 5 decades before rear fogs were a thing where 15mph was genuinely pushing it, when these lights first arrived many of those who had them switched the things on at the first sign of a damp road (look i've got a newer car than you with rear fogs), a wet motorway run became horrible because all you could see were dozens of dazzling red lights in which a set of brake lights would barely register.
feel like I ve walked into a nursing home KingNothing said:
In my experience majority of the time people put their rear fog lights on when they're not needed at all, and more annoyingly, can't seem to work out, you can turn them off when the situation changes, rather than leaving them on till they get to wherever they're going, in short people are fking idiots.
That seems to sum it up nicely! king idiots.Fog lights on in light drizzle with a shed load of visibility but it's a bit gloomy. By contrast when it's genuinely foggy, plenty of muppets will be relying purely on their DRLs!
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