With overly bright DRLs, chasing led indicators and cornering foglights the oncoming car resembles something from close encounters of the third kind...

Tha' can't beat a man wi' a red flag walking in't frunt o' car!

Pah to progress!

 

Cornering foglights are a rubbish gimmick. Fog lights point ahead, mostly. Not round corners. It's just a poor imitation of having a proper dynamic lighting system. Which on a Skoda, is pretty rudimentary (compared to an E class that I was passenger in recently and that shizzle is just leap years ahead)

That kept people in jobs in them days too

Cornering fog lights will become a thing of the past as more cars adopt the cornering headlight instead, which is a more expensive way of doing it. The demise of the cornering fog light will happen faster as more and more cars move to LED headlights which makes it easier to adjust the beam depending on what the car is doing.

 

Some clown flashed his front fog lights and then main beam at me the other night as I was turning. Had I had the time I would have reversed back up to the junction and asked him...

 

...what on earth made him choose an Astra 

Edited 24 February, 201610 yr by silver1011

They are actually very effective on my MkII Superb, they light up a long way to the sides of the car too...

 

Edited 24 February, 201610 yr by silver1011

Done to death here by the way...

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/372615-cornering-front-fog-lights/

 

There will always be haters.

 

Usually by those who complained when the rear fog light was introduced, then when halogen headlights arrived, and then xenon headlights, and now DRL's, then LED headlights etc.

 

Some call it progress.

Edited 24 February, 201610 yr by silver1011

I don't mind the corner lights. In fact I like them and find them useful, as many people don't use blinkers. Also out side city where there's no street lights it comes very good when turning in dark.

 

I have them on my car but they are option on all equipment packs her in Croatia.

 

Most funny thing is some people don't know of them, so the think the other light isn't working. 

Edited 24 February, 201610 yr by Croat

DRLs are great, recall they been in existence for an eon with volvo and motorbikes adopted the principle many many years ago and when your on a bike it's a good thing.

Personally I think xenon headlights are great and should be mandatory on all vehicles, for me that is a bigger improvement in safety, it may even reduce accidents.

DRLs are great, recall they been in existence for an eon with volvo and motorbikes adopted the principle many many years ago and when your on a bike it's a good thing.

Personally I think xenon headlights are great and should be mandatory on all vehicles, for me that is a bigger improvement in safety, it may even reduce accidents.

I Agree!

 

Now theres Laser lights & Xenon will go away in few years.

DRLs are great, recall they been in existence for an eon with volvo and motorbikes adopted the principle many many years ago and when your on a bike it's a good thing.

Personally I think xenon headlights are great and should be mandatory on all vehicles, for me that is a bigger improvement in safety, it may even reduce accidents.

 

 

 

This is a bit of a myth. There is no real irrefutable independent evidence that supports the theory that DRLs reduce motorbike accidents. Amazingly. People assume this is the case but I havent seen anything to date (it gets done to deat on places like visordown and TRC)

 

Also, there is the theory that it can contribute to increasing them at certain ambient light levels when 'hazing' becomes an issue that prevents drivers from seeing past the point of light emittance and hinders the brain to judge speed and ad distance of an approaching vehicle.

No one here proved there was any evidence that they reduce motorbike accidents. They certainly did not prevent mine.

I personally find high LUX output DRLs a visual distraction combined with ever increasing patterns. But I am not anti DRLs.