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Re: The fallacy of DRLs




In article <42mq9j$dk0@news1.cle.ab.com>, daryl.krzewinski@ab.com (Daryl M. Krzewinski) writes:
|> In article <42kg39$j66@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>, protmp1@bnr.ca (Isaac Wong) says:
|> 
|> >You don't know what is a DRL. If you simply use low-beams during daytime as
|> >a substitute, it will be too bright. DRL is reduced-brightness low-beams.
|> >They don't cause unnecessary distractions, but still let other drivers
|> >see you if you have DRL on. Some of the people who posts from the US find
|> >that DRLs irritating. Maybe they are not seeing DRLs. They might be seeing
|> >actual full-intensity low-beams. Who knows? Did those people stop and ask
|> >all the drivers who have their headlights on to check whether they have
|> >DRLs or real headlights?
|> 
|> For a Canadian chap who claims to know more about DRL than his American
|> neighbors, you disappoint a lot Isaac. I am an American, and I know for a
|> fact that by your own Canadian laws, you are wrong.
|> 
|> I've said this before, and I'll say it again, there are many different 
|> possible configurations for DRL. These range anywhere from very high-intensity 
|> parking lamps, to full-intensity low beams, to high beams at 80% intensity. 
|> Of course, there are dozens of median possibilities too. All are legal within
|> Canada, and VW has consistently used the 80% intensity high beam for several
|> years.
|> 
|> This information comes directly from a reprint of the Canadian DRL spec which
|> is sitting before me. It's not my opinion or observation, so don't even bother
|> to dispute it. I suggest you best stick with the argument as to whether or not 
|> you believe DRL to be effective and cease pointing the finger with "you don't 
|> even know what it is", when you seem to be unaware of what is legally defined 
|> yourself.

I am not trying to speak for my Government or anything. I am just speaking for
my *OWN* experiences on the road everyday. I see cars with reduced-brightness
low beams as DRLs all the time, with a few exceptions use amber lights,
e.g. Saturn, Miata or fog lights (??), e.g. Toyota Celica. There is a 
difference between what the Government permits and what the manufacturers
choose to implement. You are right that some manufacturers would choose a
reduced-intensity high beams, but I don't think lots of them do that. In
fact if they do, I don't find them distracting either.

I am not disputing your legal document right beside you, but I doubt many
manufacturers went to the high beam direction. You cannot speak for those
who really don't know what DRL is, if you know it pretty well.

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Isaac Wong                | Protel Compiler Group
iwong@chat.carleton.ca    | Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
cm644@freenet.carleton.ca | Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering
TEL: (613) 763-6127       | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada


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