Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
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Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
Driving to Salmon Arm quite a few times and noticed so many without lights on. Daytime running lights may be on but from behind in the morning fog you can hardly see them unless they tap the brake lights and your quickly on their tail. Also many don`t even have daytime running light, doesn`t seem safe. Also causes problems for people turning onto and off that road especially after Armstrong.
You also see this a lot during daytime winter snowfalls where visibility is effected.
You also see this a lot during daytime winter snowfalls where visibility is effected.
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Re: Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
Ive always thought that day time running lights should be the same for the tail lights as well
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Re: Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
I don't even have fog lights. Just day time.
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Re: Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
I came *this* close to rear ending a car on the connector for the same reason.
I'd pulled into the passing lane to move around a vehicle doing approximately 60km/h to nearly slam into the back of a car going 40...40!!! in the passing lane with no lights on.
I'd pulled into the passing lane to move around a vehicle doing approximately 60km/h to nearly slam into the back of a car going 40...40!!! in the passing lane with no lights on.
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Good luck trying to prove that they had no lights on in poor visibility. Would be ruled as your fault.
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Re: Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
I`ve noticed a lot more people with dash cams, i`m still looking for a real good one.
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Captain Awesome wrote:Good luck trying to prove that they had no lights on in poor visibility. Would be ruled as your fault.
Insurance investigators can tell.
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Gixxer wrote:Ive always thought that day time running lights should be the same for the tail lights as well
YES! YES! YES! and at least for your own safety, if you drive a grey or silver vehicle...put them on!
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Dash cam, just installed a 2 channel blackvue 650 dashcam, it works great. As for daytime running lights, people need to know if their particular vehicle turns on the tailights when the daytime running lights are on....lots don't. Many people assume that because they have an "automatic" headlight setting that in hard rain, fog, snow storms, etc, that their lights come on....what they don't understand is that they detect darkness, that's it. So for fog, rain, snow or any other visibility issues not related to darkness please turn your lights on!
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I have a Papago 272 dashcam in my vehicle and it works great. It's small and easy-peasy to install and it only cost me about $100 on sale so it's not exactly an expensive item. Everyone should have one, in fact I think they should be standard equipment in all new vehicles.
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Re: Heavy heavy fog NO lights.
What would be really cool is the car ahead of you giving you a readout from his dashcam, so you could see hazards before they got you.
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I Think wrote:What would be really cool is the car ahead of you giving you a readout from his dashcam, so you could see hazards before they got you.
um I think that would be a bit distracting...... But some new vehicles do have forward collision avoidance and it works fantastic....
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Captain Awesome wrote:Good luck trying to prove that they had no lights on in poor visibility. Would be ruled as your fault.
I have a dash camera and I was still far under the speed limit. Can't imagine I could be found entirely at fault.
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rear ending someone in poor visibility you bet you would be partially at fault its called driving to fast for the conditions even tho you were travelling below the speed limit if you were to hit someone your going to fast