Cars with "Fog" Lights on at lowbeam.

[peber]

I wish police would pick on the hoons, or idiots that play the music so loud you can hear them coming from 10km away, not factory fitted fog lights.

+1
I can't put louder pipes on my bike because then I get booked.
So I have to live with other cars, music blaring, not checking before they check lanes, etc.

At least if their music isn't 120db they would hear me before they blindly change lanes.
No amount of buffering can possibly be enough when you are passing another car on a motorbike!

[revengous]

fog lights? I havent seen any in a while

then again, I dont really care about your car.

[MaddMoose]

[quote="peber

+1
I can't put louder pipes on my bike because then I get booked.
So I have to live with other cars, music blaring, not checking before they check lanes, etc.
[/quote]

Put some Harley Davidson stickers on your bike. Then you can be as loud as you want

[Matty]

We should be focusing on things like drink/drug driving and proper driver education.
"Hooning" is very media happy (ie it pulls the ratings in). Everyone thinks it's the bane of all society but the fact is they make up a very very VERY small amount of bad drivers. (And now anyone with an exhaust is now a "hoon")

Bring in yearly driving tests I say.

[Bluefire]

Well I think my roof mounted/top edge of bullbar hella 4k's look cool to...its illegal to have them WIRED while on a road let alone ON.

Its not "modified" cars that are the issue arround here, cops look far to closely at those for anyone to do anything stupid with them.
Its 30-80 year old mums and dads who have brought a car, On holiday or moved to the country and cant drive the roads for ****.
I'd say most of them are "dealer fitted" not "factory fitted".

[Chucky]

Well I think my roof mounted/top edge of bullbar hella 4k's look cool to...its illegal to have them WIRED while on a road let alone ON.

...and they would hardly be classed as fog lights, Roof Mounted lights are usually classed as spot lights last time I heard, and a million times brighter than fog lights.

Personally my fog lights are mounted about 30 cm from the ground and angled in that direction. Should my actual headlights be turned off it would be impossible to drive with just the foglights (assuming they worked when the headlights were off, and in my case they don't anyway) as pointed out earlier they would barely reach 5-10m and hardly classed as a road hazzard.

Police could spend that time they invest looking for fog light offenders into actual life saving offences.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I've got factory fitted foglights on my car but I don't use them except when there's well, fog. They do nothing at all to enhance illumination at night time and definitely have no impulse to make my car look more 'badass' (its a Suzuki SX4 so it wouldn't work very well anyways )

[X66WeeD666X]

We should be focusing on things like drink/drug driving and proper driver education.
"Hooning" is very media happy (ie it pulls the ratings in). Everyone thinks it's the bane of all society but the fact is they make up a very very VERY small amount of bad drivers. (And now anyone with an exhaust is now a "hoon")

Bring in yearly driving tests I say.

As much as i would LOVE to see this, plus a yearly medical to go with it, there'd be no one left on the roads.

No people, no taxes, not gonna happen. Plus with the way peoples mentalities are today it would be to intrusive or some BS.

[nudge]

Perhaps it depends on the car. I know if I am sitting in a dark field and can see where they are lighting, I can see that they shine higher and brighter in places that other cars will be driving. But people are doing much worse things on the road then leaving on fog lights.

[AzzA82]

We should be focusing on things like drink/drug driving and proper driver education.
"Hooning" is very media happy (ie it pulls the ratings in). Everyone thinks it's the bane of all society but the fact is they make up a very very VERY small amount of bad drivers. (And now anyone with an exhaust is now a "hoon")

Bring in yearly driving tests I say.

Ya Mat, i'm laughing my arse off about my missus driving my car around old el with full extractor kit and 2 1/4 pipes its loud, but only when you take off.
Anyways EVERYONE calls her a hoon, and she just got a job at a private school as a a teacher. Already getting the new car spiel.

But fog lights have 'em come up to north QLD and deal with giant 4x4 lights on every freakin car on the highways, I effin wanna kill them guys.

[xkrewshe8]

I always drive with my driving lights, only have stock lights factory fitted with my '07 VE SS commodore.

They are not as bright as my standard head lights, and not even close to as bright as the high beams.

The ones that drive me mental are the ones with the real bright white/blue light, when they hit a bump and blast the car it is blinding. Those are just head lights, and in some model cars I would assume factory standard with the amount around now, and I personally hate those more than fog lights.

[Mekon]

I wonder if it has ever occurred to those supporting the use of bright lights that sensitivity to light varies from person to person?

I have albino maculas and unexpected bright light can be rather painful.

[Matty]

I wonder if it has ever occurred to those supporting the use of bright lights that sensitivity to light varies from person to person?

I have albino maculas and unexpected bright light can be rather painful.

What happens in the case of speed cameras at night and/or people with high beams on?

[Mekon]

What happens in the case of speed cameras at night and/or people with high beams on?

Truth be told, I don't think I've ever been flashed by a speed camera (only speeding ticket I ever got was a handheld) so they don't tend to be pointed at my eyes.

re: high beams - also irritating. Which highlights the fact that pointing your high beams into oncoming traffic is universally acknowledged as inconsiderate; why would fog lights be any different?

[Matty]

Yeah, but unless they are aftermarket fog lights aren't bright though. No brighter then your normal headlight. I reckon you will find that 4wd headlights would probably be brighter on low beams then fog lights (Because they are right at eye level)