Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) on the S550

[souprmage]

Just because you say something, doesn't make it true.

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[Norm Peterson]

Also: It isn't about you. No regulation or law or rule is about any one person. It's about what's statistically likely to be more beneficial or less beneficial to society as a whole.

My opinions are supported by my driving record, which certainly has statistical predictions associated with it. Other peoples' statistics may not support the same thoughts.


Norm

 

[Norm Peterson]

Just because you say something, doesn't make it true.

Prove it. Find something here that's factually wrong.


Norm

 

[vanguard]

To assume that you know any individual just because you know human nature in general is to stick your head in the sand.


Norm

i said i don't know you and i don't need to

 

[ShoNuff]

What I hate is when I hit my breaks the lights on the back come on. Suggestions on how to disable that?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I can just imagine Norm driving around at night with headlights off thinking to himself "f**k im the best driver here - everyone else needs those "Nanny" headlights"

 

[Norm Peterson]

Imagination is how all the rest of the best fiction is written. :clap2:


Norm

 

[activeGT]

Norm, you are scaring me now.

Just drive the darn car with the DRLs on, please?

 

[Norm Peterson]

You guys seem to think I never use any lights during the daytime unless it's raining. You're mistaken; there are times when I do, and they will typically be on precisely during the most critical times. On edit, when I rode motorcycles, I always had my headlight (and taillight) burning. Wouldn't think of riding with them off.

When you can find a way to reduce zero accidents by 5-15%, please let me know.

See my earlier comment on comparing ground vehicles against aircraft. It's not the same situation. Even this Aviation article makes the same distinction.


Norm

 

[cush]

It appears I don't have the "Configurable" lighting, and I can't turn off the DRLs...Oh well, I Guess I'll live with it!:headbonk:

 

[MagneticA]

Have you ever been in a classroom where the teacher drones on and on to the point where it's like the Peanuts cartoon and all you hear is garbled noise? Looking back I wish I would have just stood up and left the room. I think my time would have been better spent. Although it was fun mocking the teacher and trying to get her to digress. But anyway, I think time is better spent somewhere else today...

 

[Norm Peterson]

without the need for manual intervention

It all comes down to that, no? Feel free to consider what that implies.

If it makes you feel any better, as I get older I probably will at least run parking lights under a wider variety of conditions. Can't run DRLs on cars that don't have them, and no, I won't backfit any.


Norm

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

On this subject: I almost got hit today driving to work; if the vehicle that almost hit me had DRL's, there would have been no risk of an accident.

It was raining like crazy, and so visibility was limited. I was driving down a one-way street when a panel van blew a red light and came through the intersection from my left. Luckily, it slammed on the brakes and I was able to swerve out of the way before a collision, but if the car had DRL's, I would have seen it coming soon enough to stop beforehand.

Again, the DRL's aren't about you; they're about everybody else. This guy / gal should have had headlights on in the rain... but didn't. Not giving people the option to be stupid can save lives.

 

[mkenny28]

On this subject: I almost got hit today driving to work; if the vehicle that almost hit me had DRL's, there would have been no risk of an accident.

It was raining like crazy, and so visibility was limited. I was driving down a one-way street when a panel van blew a red light and came through the intersection from my left. Luckily, it slammed on the brakes and I was able to swerve out of the way before a collision, but if the car had DRL's, I would have seen it coming soon enough to stop beforehand.

Again, the DRL's aren't about you; they're about everybody else. This guy / gal should have had headlights on in the rain... but didn't. Not giving people the option to be stupid can save lives.

Whew that was a close one! Been there before, glad it turned out alright. I agree with you completely but in my experience Stupid finds a way no matter what you do.

 

[phil1336]

It all comes down to that, no? Feel free to consider what that implies.

If it makes you feel any better, as I get older I probably will at least run parking lights under a wider variety of conditions. Can't run DRLs on cars that don't have them, and no, I won't backfit any.


Norm

Norm, You won`t have to retro-fit DRL`s unless you buy a Ford vehicle. Now that Mazda, Nissan and Chrysler have put them on (most) of their 15` Cars, seems like Ford is the last hold out. Guess we have to rant on something else.

 

[Aaleck]

Good luck getting them turned off. My 2012 GT had them and I tried almost everything short of rewiring the entire thing. In the s197 its controlled by the smart junction box and I had ford go in with the computer and they couldn't do it

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