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[–] themeatbridge 36 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Bikes should have daytime strobes and headlamps. Cars should always have their headlights on. Visibility reduces accidents.

You can be on a curved road or a hill and have vehicles you can see that are not within your headlight beams. Further, if a vehicle is obstructed by a curve or hill, you may see lights illuminate the dark ahead of you before the vehicle comes into view.

There's no reason not to have lights on vehicles on the road.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Further, if a vehicle is obstructed by a curve or hill, you may see lights illuminate the dark ahead of you before the vehicle comes into view.

Plus this sometimes works during the day in shadey areas or when it is very overcast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Or when people are idiots and just don't turn them on when they're supposed to.

You'd think with how prevalent automatic headlights are nowadays there'd be a lot less people driving with them off in the rain/dark, yet every single night I see at least one idiot doing it in a car that I know has automatic headlights.

[–] SlippyCliff76 1 points 3 months ago

It probably has more to do with always on dashboards and infotainment systems in SUVs more then anything else.

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