JohnH
ITYM "come on with the wipers" yes?
I personally don't like "auto" mode to begin with. My philosophy on such things is that if you provide an "auto" mode then drivers will buttume that no thought needs to be given to light use, ever - which we know isn't the case. Thus, if you provide an "auto" mode it should be as close to truly automatic as it's possible to be, because users will treat it as such. The reason GM is getting scorn for their implementation is that they have provided an "auto" mode that isn't truly automatic - it doesn't turn the lights on under conditions that ought to be easily detectable by the control circuit and yet in most areas legally require that the lights be turned on. Hence, a sucky design. The way you describe your Jeep working sounds much more logical. But overall, the added complexity, to me, isn't worth it, as at least for me turning on the lights when it's dark-foggy-rainy-whatever is as automatic as shifting - and having worked on enough older cars, I can definitively state that I prefer working on the ones with fewer automatic gadgets as opposed to more.
The dangers of DRLs 4655Yes, he stated it backwards. The brake light system works properly 99.9% of the time. Hardly a comparable example to a inferior design that works properly under only...
nate
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