Fog lights plus > 70mph?

Gilly said:
Well, true, you thought I was serious after all.
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I believed you too ... but I don't have faith in humanity so it shows how easily I could believe that a person could think this.

Because it's similar to one of the reasons that street lamps are yellow and not white, the light has a bit more of the red/yellow wavelength portion in it. Since this range of visible light has a longer wavelength than blue/green light it doesn't scatter as easily in Fog as normal white light would. The longer wavelength means the light will physically interact less with the water vapour in the fog and thus the light travels further without being scattered.

But no... it isn't slower than any other light haha - but you quite obviously are joking about that.
 
They're referred to as cornering lights aren't they?

2010 MkVI GTI with Bi-Xenons and cornering lights enabled. The fog lights turn on to illuminate the corner you turn the wheel towards below a certain speed (I believe 10mph). Above 10mph-30mph or so, the Bi-Xenon headlights "bend" (rotate) with your steering angle.
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I told someone at the garage they had a fog light out (I refrained from calling him a bell end for having them on in the first place). He informed me they were cornering lights. I then felt like the bell end.
 
Yellow JDM steering fogs for the win?
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Stupid idea really, having 1 fog light on is fine as it helps you see round corners, having 2 on when it isn't foggy gets you a 30 quid fine and makes you look like a ****.
On a slightly related topic, I do love the audi's etc that have those bright LED lights that go out at one side when the indicator comes on.
 
MrLOL said:
However fog lights, only illuminating say 10 feet in front of you, are completely useless at illuminating any visible stretch of road when covering 31 metres every second. Simply, by the time the fog lights have illuminated it, you've driven over it and beyond its visibion before you've got chance to react. Driving with only your fogs on is barely any different from travelling with sidelights on. And you wouldnt do that on an unlit motorway in the dark.
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And this is exactly why next time we have a foglight thread and some bright spark says he puts his fogs on so he can see more of the road on country lanes, we can all laugh at him :D
 
My front fogs are cool JDM yellow, though they do nothing, I tried them in thick fog and still couldn't see.

Drives me mad when people leave them on all the time, I'm raging in my car going the other way "IT'S NOT FOGGY!!!" :D
 
I use my fog lights in fog or other conditions that mean it is difficult to see the edge of the road. E.g. they were useful in the snow last month when it was dark.
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My girlfriend has them on constantly as she thinks it looks good. Silly woman. She's in the car, can't even see them!
 
I knew this thread was coming, thickest fog I've driven in, ever, but still not thick enough for front fog lights (doing ~30 to 40 mph). But everyone still turns them on because they're called fog lights and this is probably the only chance they will ever get to use them.

Rear fogs are fine, they were very justified last night.
 
I use my fogs so infrequently that when I was driving through some pea-soup a few weeks back, I had no idea where the button was to turn them on. Turns out they are hidden by the steering wheel.
 
In 8 years of driving I've probably only used my front fogs twice.

I reckon 10% of the cars I see at night have their fogs on, regardless of the weather. Some even have sidelights on and then fogs.

I have an inkling that some people don't know the difference.
 
If the photons emitted by fog lights is slower than normal photons. Can we then assume that the photons emitted by HIDs is FASTER than normal photons? Could HIDs (or at least the science behind this) be the secret to the hyperdrive on the Starship Enterprise?
 
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