Too late, Murphy did notice and Murphy agrees with me that DRL's are infact an important safety factor and if a car is built with them then they should never be disabled. It not as if you have to pay through the nose to have these switched on, they are not massively power hungry items.
Remember, they are for the benefit of other road users and if someone can see you clearly because of them it might save your life in return
because the other person didn't pull out of a side turning right into your path causing a crash, what ever next, refusing to wear your seatbelt? ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/facepalm.gif)
Even if you don't care about your safety as a result of being easier to spot, consider the other person and help to protect them as well, geez.
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If someone can't see this blue blob of an SUV under normal daytime conditions I have to question whether they should be driving at all. And in cases of inclement weather or night time I have the intelligence to use appropriate exterior lighting as necessary. I don't need to rely on a computer to make that basic decision for me. And.....to help insure I am seen when lighting is required I installed these auxiliary driving lights.
But you are still missing the point, DRL's have been proven to be a safety device that actually works and the life that they save, might well turn out to be yours. As I said, mine are left enabled, it costs me nothing, the same as the seatbelts, they cost me nothing to use but can save my life.
I used to be like you and thought that Volvo were stupid for having DRL's on their cars. For years and years, they were the only ones doing it. But as one gets older and then starts wearing glasses because the sight is not what it once was, and sometimes glasses get a bit foggy momentarily and vision drops as a result, cannot see you and your big blue (had to be blue didn't it Papa Smurf
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) CRV, pulls out in front of you and wham, you run into the side of the person...but had your DRL's been on, then they might have seen you and waited. Your pride and joy would not have had its body work smashed, you might not have been injured or worse, killed, and for what reason did you decide to disable your DRL's, I wonder? If the above actually were to happen, then perhaps with hindsight, you might have wished you had never disabled them.
My car has all the added protection built-in, I am more than capable of driving and controlling it without the add-ons like ESC, ABS and the like, but I'm not infallible, and I do value my life, so I leave them all enabled so that if I make a mistake, hopefully they will do their job and keep me safe.
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