Foggy and misty this morning and as usual I'm confused

[Dup]

Well some cars are pretty visible fogs on or not and the fact you saw them without their fogs on means they were pretty visible anyway and it's not a law that you have to use them though is it?

5m viability, 8 at a push... that's when I could see them. When I was right up their chuff. About 8 cars following at very close distance on country roads with no fog lights on. Add fogs, see a bit further away, stress less. I'm sure if a traffic cop rolled up behind they would have had the same view and would have stopped them and given them some education. It's an MOT requirement to have a fog light at the rear even if your car didn't come with one. They can stop you if they think it isn't working as clearly it is not road worthy.

5 metre visibility, and I'd question whether anyone should be on the road.

That was rear lights. Headlights you could see coming faintly in the distance but approaching cars from behind was awful. Not many places you can stop in the middle of nowhere either but I'm very used to it anyway. Same old roads, conditions and fellow road users.


But hey ho, maybe it's fine to crawl around at 10mph in poor visibility and ignore all means of alerting other road users of your presence when the option is clearly there.

Surely the switch indicates what light setting you are using?

My CTR didn't have a headlight on symbol, neither does my MX-5. My Punto did and the 9-5 does though.

 

[NeverWinter]

Lights on Auto

 

[mrk]

Not auto fogs though

There'd be some kind of nationwide warning if visibility was 5 metres or 8 at a push surely as that's not even 2 saloon car lengths...I've never seen fog that bad and I've done motorway runs in heavy fog where visibility has easily been several car lengths to be able to see the tail lights of the car ahead.

 

[NeverWinter]

No, not auto fogs Maybe I could design them...

 

[Dup]

Not auto fogs though

There'd be some kind of nationwide warning if visibility was 5 metres or 8 at a push surely as that's not even 2 saloon car lengths...I've never seen fog that bad and I've done motorway runs in heavy fog where visibility has easily been several car lengths to be able to see the tail lights of the car ahead.

I must be blind then, clearly

Its been this bad many times before. The only reason I could see the cars in front of another was due to their headlights and distance from the car in front. The fog doesn't last for too long usually, hardly national alert and not very predictable either. Not that I watch the weather anyway.

 

[Clarkey]

Not auto fogs though

There'd be some kind of nationwide warning if visibility was 5 metres or 8 at a push surely as that's not even 2 saloon car lengths...I've never seen fog that bad and I've done motorway runs in heavy fog where visibility has easily been several car lengths to be able to see the tail lights of the car ahead.

That's funny, I was driving in some 5m stuff the other night, have driven in worse too, so bad you couldn't even tell which direction you were moving never mind where the road was. Happens all the time out in the sticks.

 

[mrk]

Yup must be.

 

[dirtydog]

My CTR didn't have a headlight on symbol, neither does my MX-5. My Punto did and the 9-5 does though.

You don't need a symbol to know what setting the lights are on, because you can tell from where the switch is set to, that was his point. Unless there are cars which don't use that system, but all the cars I've ever driven have done.

 

[Lopéz]

My CTR didn't have a headlight on symbol, neither does my MX-5. My Punto did and the 9-5 does though.

But there is a symbol on the switch - you turn it on to the relevant position. You don't need a telltale, really.

 

[Firestar_3x]

They should move all light controls (bar main beam) away from the stalks and put them on rotary knobs, aka BMW / VW / Audi etc. Makes it much easier for the idiots to figure out what lights they have on.

 

[Matt82]

its always dark when i leave in the morning so my headlights are going to be on when i go to work in the monring. i couldnt count the number of times i see some clown stop at the end of the road, put the sidelights on and then the obligatory fog lights (i live in essex after all)