‘Automatic headlights’ don’t work in fog? Safety Question

About 40-50% of the cars we passed on the road today had no headlights on or only had the dim side lights. Do automatic lights not work in fog for these modern cars? Seems super sketchy

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u/SkeletorsAlt 16d ago

Yeah, this has been a thing for the entire 25+ years I’ve had a driver’s license.

Something about driving an anonymous grey or silver crossover fills these people with a desire to emerge silently from the mist like the Flying Fucking Dutchman of dropping the kids off at school.

I’ve been flashing my headlights at them for over two decades and I’ve always had a <50% success rate. Oh well.

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u/UnboundedCord42 16d ago

Flashing my light bar has a 98% success rate lol unbelievable how many people don’t turn their lights on though seen some extremely dangerous weather and people just chillin probably barely seeing too without lights. Daylight running lights are shit for this too cause I’ve seen people think they are their actual lights.

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u/LightlySaltedPeanuts 16d ago

Yup they just have DRLs on which is only very dim headlights and no taillights. Especially when its a black car. I’ve done the ‘turn my lights on and off’ to get their attention and like they said above, maybe 50% get the clue. The crazy thing is with their lights off their gauge cluster must be bright as hell in daytime mode, making it even harder for them to see. But they just keep going on their merry NPC way

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u/notlitnez2000 15d ago

Aye, the stupefying of America is only 50%? I’d estimate closer to 85%.