That’s Mister Low Beams to you!

In Canada we are required to have Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) which are less bright and are just on by default, but they don't turn on the tail lights. For the most part, DRLs use the same bulbs as the high beams but at a lower wattage or something (I am not an electrician)

But yes I agree, high beams and fog don't mix.

Austria had a day time lights law when I learned to drive, it just made sense. Then they abolished that law again :(

Which means you do get idiots driving in fog or at dusk with their lights off.

Hell, the automatic lights aren't perfect either on my new car, in bright fog I still have to make sure I turn the lights on manually as otherwise the back lights are turned off (front is okay with the LEDs). Stupid design.

I wish we made lights on mandatory. And also made certain levels of brightness illegal for the regualar lights.

this is fucking hell when every car nowadays has blinding headlights

I strobe people with my LED highbeams when they're shining those offending things at me when it's nowhere near dark out. dim your fucking lights, asshole, there's no need for me to be blinded by a second sun at 3pm

it's always better to not use high beams im the fog

of all the mandated safety systems on vehicles, the fact that automatic headlights arent one of them is astounding to me. I've had automatic headlights in nearly every vehicle I've owned for the last 20 years, none of which were particularly high end, and seeing there's vehicles out there that still don't come with it is nuts.

I share your pain. I drive with my lights on at all times unless it's fully sunny, in which case I use just the DRLs. I truly think having your lights on hugely reduces your risk of an accident.

Honestly they should just be designing cars to include tail lights in RDLs, there's no reason for them not to be on all the time tbh.

Clearly a lot of people have trouble keeping up with them 😪

I did hear recently that authorities are informing people not to use hazards just to be seen during inclement weather and that they should actually be saved for emergencies.

No! If you think you need hazard lights to be seen while driving, the weather is so bad you just need to pull the fuck over and wait it out.

Hazard lights are for when your car is disabled on the side of the road, not for when you're driving.

Around here (the US), that's the kind of thing cops do when they're actually racially profiling you and looking for a pretext.

My (ambiguously brown) wife once got pulled over late at night in rural South Carolina for "one tail light not lighting up as brightly as the other."

Germany

nowadays this is actually a good thing, because even fog lights are so goddamn bright that they blind you

but yeah a decade ago who gave a shit. 10 year old highbeams are less blinding than a new car's lowbeams

Buddy of mine got a citation for wrong use of the vehicles lights. A fine of the equivalent of 300USD. What did he do? He had been driving in fog, and didn't switch off his fog lights. He was pulled over less than a km out of the fog. Dude was pissed.