The dangers of DRLs 4597

Must be rare. I see few GM vehicles with their regular headlights on when it's "gloomy" (I buttume you mean overcast).

The problem is that the average "joe blow" driver that drives a car with a "auto" light control system (none work properly, BTW) no longer thinks about their lights. The auto system has "conditioned" them to completely "forget" about lighting control. This is a bad thing for those times quite often when the manual control should be used. I've noticed the exact same thing 223rem has noticed (and have posted same in the GM newsgroup). GM vehicles are driving around without their regular lights on in daytime rain and dayting fog in numbers far higher than the rest of the traffic.

Astounding? I see far fewer of those than I do GM vehicles with only their DRLs on when all lights should be on. GM had made the problem *worse*, not better.

I am aware of your car types, however. I even used to own one (never will again). I live where there are numerous streets that go into and out of wooded areas. Under common ambient lighting situations a car following me through these areas will have their lights go on about 4-5 seconds after driving under the tree canopy of the woods only to have them extinguish about 20-30 seconds or so after coming out from under the tree canopy. Go into another section of woods, bingo, lights on again. So, as one drives, the lights come on and off and come on and go off. What a annoying, distracting nuisance with yahoos flashing their lights on and off behind you! Poor design!

No thanks for auto headlamp systems. At least not until they can come up with a system that actually works without these (an many other) anomalies.