• SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Don’t all new cars have daytime running lights? I thought that was now standard. Hell, I thought it was required.

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      1 year ago

      Most newer ones have the “auto” feature, which typically involves a daytime light of some kind). Some people just turn it off.

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        1 year ago

        But to the commenter’s point, why not just have them on all the time no matter what? Is there a disadvantage?

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          1 year ago

          Nope. The issue is many drivers don’t understand car electronics and that the alternator is constantly generating power as the car goes along. They turn it off thinking it will save battery life.

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            1 year ago

            The only other reason I can think of is, would it make the headlights burn out fast? Not that it wouldn’t be worth it either way imo. Idk how much of a difference it would make on the lifespan, or if replacing headlights is even something people have to worry about all lol, pls bear with me I don’t drive

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        1 year ago

        The headlights, tail lights are a different story though. My car def can have the tail lights off at night. That’s not right at all

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        1 year ago

        No we do. There was a short period a decade ago where they had it and we didn’t but thats not true anymore

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          1 year ago

          Google says otherwise. Maybe your state does, but it’s not federally mandated.

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      1 year ago

      There are a lot of cars where the daytime running lights are just little outer Halos and not actual headlights. I fucking hate these because people think their headlights are on and don’t realize that the back of their car is completely black at night because the back lights are not on only the front daytime running.

      I don’t know what the fuck manufacturers were thinking with that, just fucking turn the lights on if the car is in Drive simple as that

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          Only if they are in the auto position for the headlights, many of these cars even if they switch is set to off will still have those Halo running lights when turned on which people mistake for headlights because most of them are LED now and fairly bright. So they drive around with the back of their car completely dark but when you go to pass them you realize that they have their running lights on and it does look potentially like a set of headlights even though it’s not