Lame Excuses Against
DRLs
Here are some excerpts
from Internet discussion groups from people who think that DRLs are pure evil.
Italicized text passages are lame excused I've found on the Internet, and
non-italicized text are my words.
And what if I
want to park my car and leave the engine running?
If you ask that
question, you'd might was well be asking: "What if I want to waste gas for
no good reason and achieve zero miles per gallon?" If you don't want your
lights on when you park, turn off your engine. Duh. It's that easy. Why should
a person park a car and leave the engine running? Some people think that
turning off their engine for 5 minutes will cause all traces of oil to drip to
the bottom of their engine's oil pan—leading to a so-called "cold
start" condition and causing major engine wear when it's restarted! If you
read your car manual, it will tell you to turn off your engine when parked.
And so what
if the lights are on while the engine is idling? What problem will it cause? Do
people also get the urge to deactivate their airbags and ABS braking systems
when in the same situation? Of course not.
About Daytime
running lights on cars i do not like them. Not a good idea.I hate it when gov.
forces it to be. It's just plain stupid.if you can'nt see that good any way you
shuold'nt be driving.
Gee, well, this
budding children's book author completely misses the point. DRLs were never
intended to allow legally blind people to drive; they were designed as an extra
aid to other drivers.
During the
day when your lights would be irritating to others When driving on a two lane
road When sitting in a parking lot and shining your lights at the store patrons
When you simply don't want your lights on Because you only need lights in the
dark, the sun is all the light we need
Oh please. How
could a light irritate somebody so much? Has the extra stress in our daily
lives caused some people to be so easily irritable? And I have never run into a
situation where DRLs cause a problem by shining into store windows; the amount
of light entering a store via a headlight is a drop in the bucket compared to
what the sun beams in all the time. Sheesh!
For instance,
when approaching a Security Gate, and the guard can't see an access sticker
until you have cleared his position, and therefore stopped blinding him/her
with your DRL's.
Yet another
claim that people are hypersensitive to lights during the daytime. I can
honestly say that I can look at a sticker on a car without being bothered by
its DRLs.
I am
definately against running lights. They DO cause eye strain and to deny that
is sheer stupidity.The bright oncoming lights affect our eyes in an
obviously negative way causing tired eyes, which, in turn creates poorer
driving ability.Show me a test where bright lights don't affect the eyes
adversely. It makes me angry to see the sheep-like way that people are
taking to this and I refuse to conform.
Gee, either I'm
suffering from "sheer stupidity" or the genetic make-up of my eyes
prevents me from experiencing glare from headlights during the day. I admit
that driving at night with others approaching even with regular
beam headlamps can sometimes cause a lot of glare and make it difficult to see,
but I have never experienced blinding headlight glare during the daytime—even
when the other person has their high beams on during the daytime.
And here's a
test to see where bright lights don't affect eyes adversely: When somebody
turns on a 100-watt light bulb at night when you're in bed, that causes a lot
of glare and temporary blindness as your eyes adjust to the sudden light. How
about if you turn on a 100-watt light bulb in a room during the day—a room that
is already lit by sunlight? Does that cause blinding glare? No, of course not,
because your eyes are already used to the lighted environment. So why do people
think that DRLs during the day cause so much glare? Please,
tell me!
The other
problem and the main reason I don't care for DRL's is that the tail lights on
these so called " safe cars and trucks" dont come on with the start
of the engine as do the headlights. A coworker of mine borrow the boss's GMC
truck equipped with DRL's on a rainy night last summer [. As I was following it,] I could not see the
truck more then two car links away because it was raining so hard. I'm sure
that oncoming traffic could see his headlights because they were on but my coworker
didn't think to turn on his lights because this "safe truck's"
headlights came on when he turned the key. Sure you could say this happened
because the coworker was not always driving this truck but I'm sure there are
lots of others driving around without taillights on just because their
headlights are on and just may to forget to turn their light switch on.
Hopefuly the guy behind them without DRL's has turned on his lights and wont
rear end these " Safe cars and trucks."
They are indeed
"safe cars and trucks"; the problem is with the driver. When only the
DRLs are on, not only are the taillights off, but the instrument cluster lights
are off as well. That means the person driving the truck also didn't seem to
care about being able to see his speed, fuel level, stereo controls, etc.
Look these
driving lights are an extreme hassle.
They make life
very difficult, don't they? (I'm being sarcastic)
While I
believe people should have headlights ft and rear on all the time. These
driving lights are a pest. Sometimes I want to approach a camp site or a
beach parking lot in stealth.
Yeah, and I
also sometimes want to drive with my eyes closed so I can't see anything,
either. Anyways, it's not like DRLs are going to light up a whole campground at
night and wake everybody up. They're not high-powered spotlights, people! When
I drive down the road or aim my car at my garage wall at night with only DRLs
on, the light is nowhere near enough to see well at a distance.
I want to
have no lights on for ten feet. I can't. If it is night and I need to turn on
the [ignition] switch to move
the [power] window up or down, I do not want my headlights telegraphing
my position to everyone. If I am in the car late at night and we need to put
the heater on, I don't need the headlights on endangering our life, because
we have given up our privacy.
Yeah, you know,
there are these huge night monsters endangering our lives because they are
attracted to car headlights and want to kill us.
I firmly
agree that if a person wants their lights on then the rears should be on also.
They do need to make it where you can turn the darn things off when you need to
without having to remove fuses or run the risk of burning up your parking
brake. You forgot to mention when you want to go "parking" with
your favorite gal. Everyone now knows where you are and what you are doing
:).
Ever heard of
turning off the engine? When you turn it off, your DRLs turn off, too. Note
that I've even heard a story where a couple "parking" died from
carbon monoxide poisoning while the engine was running.
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