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Rain and Headlights, Oh My!

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bgbird68 Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   Mar 31, '17 9:27pm  
I was pulled over the night of game 7 of the World Series. Cop walked up, I handed him my DL and insurance and I said "I'm sorry, I know I was speeding". He gave me a warning.
 
It was at that moment I knew the Cubs would win.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 6 years ago   Mar 31, '17 11:57pm  
Truth and acknowledgement works wonders some of the time.
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AV8R Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 6 years ago   Apr 1, '17 7:46am  
Every motorist I stopped when I wore the badge had at a minimum a verbal warning coming. Some of those who would have stayed at that level of enforcement talked themselves up the scale. One talked herself into handcuffs. Sometimes people just don't know when to cut their losses and move on.
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EyeintheSky Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   Apr 1, '17 8:07am  
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All you gotta do is watch some youtube videos to see the STUPID side of how to respond to traffic stop.
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radar_99 Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 6 years ago   Apr 1, '17 11:36am  
"A new bill in Illinois would require drivers to always drive with their headlights on, even during the daytime.
 
Under current Illinois law, headlights only have to be on from sunset to sunrise and during bad weather.
 
Failing to have your headlights on could result in a $100 fine.
 
The legislation made it out of a state house committee this week is headed to the full house."
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NoTime Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 6 years ago   Apr 1, '17 10:38pm  
I'm not a fan of this law.
 
My previous car was light grey and had manual headlights. Knowing light grey was the most difficult to see on the road, I was in the habit of turning on my headlights whenever I drove.
 
Now, I have a car with auto headlights. They turn on for darkness or when I turn the wipers on. What I've noticed this week (due to this thread)... if I start the car when it is raining or somewhat dark outside, I recognize my headlights are on, so I do nothing. While driving, if it stops raining enough to turn the wipers off, my lights turn off, too.
And it's not as easy as turning it on and off each time, because far left is "Auto"
 
I suppose if this becomes a law, I'll have to buy the DRL module they made for the Canadian versions of my car.
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cjsummers Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 6 years ago   Apr 2, '17 12:35pm  
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RambleOn Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 6 years ago   Apr 2, '17 12:44pm  
Keeps me from forgetting to turn them on at dusk. Mine turn off after a few seconds when I turn the car off and come on automatically when I start the car. Set it & forget it!
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EyeintheSky Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   Apr 2, '17 12:46pm  
@RambleOn
 
What year is yours?? My van is 99 and dumb as box of rocks.
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~ 6 years ago   Apr 2, '17 12:49pm  
@EyeintheSky
 
The Mitsubishi is a '17, but both of the Souls did the same thing.
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~ 6 years ago   Apr 3, '17 12:54pm  
@cjsummers
 
I think they want the law to be lights always on because relying on human judgment to decide when it is "dusk" or when it is bad "enough" weather to turn them on is not a very good system.
 
There are a lot of weather conditions between broad daylight and bad weather that could use headlights but people don't turn them on due to their own judgment. In a very gray, overcast day, a taupe or light gray car will not be very visible on a gray pavement like the interstate but isn't going to be considered bad weather. I know a couple of guys who drive semis and they say those neutral colored cars are the hardest to see when it ISN'T broad daylight.
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bwiser Active Indicator LED Icon 4
~ 6 years ago   Apr 3, '17 1:28pm  
This is what you look like in the mirror of a semi in a drizzle. It's even worse in actual rain! Turn your lights on people!
 
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 6 years ago   Apr 3, '17 6:17pm  
@bwiser
 
So true
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~ 6 years ago   Apr 3, '17 7:07pm  
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Whit Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 6 years ago   Apr 3, '17 8:34pm  
They could care less about us, or our headlights on. It's about reasons to pull you over for revenue.
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