They're going to have time to slow down though. If it's bad enough for you to be worried about being hit from behind then you should be even more worried about being hit from the front at higher velocity.
Technical Newbie! Daylights confusion!!!
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Technical Newbie! Daylights confusion!!!
May I invite you to offer an explanation why car manufacturers give drivers the option of disabling DRL's in the first place? Don't you find that strange? Doesn't that grind with you? After all they're giving people a choice and that in today's society simply isn't good enough. No one has the right to make choices these days!
It's all very well bemoaning owners who switch the damn things off, but maybe the answer is simply not to give the option to owners of switiching them off in the first place?
You can get a gun, point it towards you and pull the trigger, doesn't mean it's a good idea. Life is full of options, a lot of them are only taken up by the more foolish of us....
Just as I thought, you have no idea hence zero explanation. I take my hat off to you Sir!
Just as I thought, you have no idea hence zero explanation. I take my hat off to you Sir!
You had the choice to completely ignore the point I made and you took it, gr9
You had the choice to completely ignore the point I made and you took it, gr9
Ahh, so typical of you maxi, now I remember why I don't care for much of what you post, but that's my choice lol! :devil:
I suspect the feeling is mutual
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The thing is you disregarded my point, by accident or on purpose. My point is this, no one can demonstrate why they're better off without drl's, you brough up choice and my point was that not all choices are good ones.
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Not sure why anyone would would want to switch off drl's- whatever happened to 'be seen be safe' ? Volvo pioneered drl's back in the 1970's, as an 'always on feature', so nothing new there, now with cheaper LEDs, they are now far more widespread -tho no LEDs in Fiats....?
My mate had a Volvo and you can turn the drl's off if you want to, just like you can with the 500. It's just if you want too or not.
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Was that a '70's Volvo? I thought the lights switch on and off with the ignition, no separate switch.
No it was a modern one, it was a combo of switches and buttons to get them off. He left them on but tried it out to see if it worked.
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The reason you can switch them off in most cars is because it's only on cars first type approved on or after 7 February 2011, that are required to have them installed, also I don't think (though I could be wrong, but am sure I have seen it somewhere) that they don't actually have to be switched on, just fitted.
So Fiat 500's where type approved in 2007\08, hence they don't even need to have them fitted, not even brand new ones.
I do have mine set to on, have some nice white light bulbs in them as well, along with white light headlight and number plate bulbs.
So Fiat 500's where type approved in 2007\08, hence they don't even need to have them fitted, not even brand new ones.
I do have mine set to on, have some nice white light bulbs in them as well, along with white light headlight and number plate bulbs.
That's not necessarily the reason though, Fiat could have decided not to give the user this option if they wanted to, the question is why.
I suspect the answer is just to keep those happy who want to be able to switch them off or wouldn't have purchased the car as a result.
