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Dec 2022
11:02pm, 1 Dec 2022
15,799 posts
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Badger
Pretty often people are driving in town with just the daylight running lights at the front on, digital dashboard lit up, and don't realise they don't actually have their headlights (and therefore tail lights on). It's not obvious until you're on unlit roads where you really need the front lights. Design flaw; anything with that front light/dashboard combo really needs auto head/tail lights.
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Dec 2022
8:27am, 2 Dec 2022
2,591 posts
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Mushroom
Different cars seem to have different defaults.
My car has an auto setting, but it runs with both front and rear lights switched on. Some cars only seem to have their front lights on.
I guess drivers have assumed their rear lights are also on when, in fact, they're not.
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Dec 2022
8:33am, 2 Dec 2022
37,325 posts
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LazyDaisy
Our car turns the headlights on automatically in dim conditions - even just going into a belt of trees along a road - but I noticed yesterday that fog *doesn't* automatically trigger them. Seems an odd oversight.
Also I followed a friend home from choir once and had to flash her as she seemed not to have put on her lights. She said that her car automatically put its lights on but I think she was confused by the daytime running lights as her tail lights were definitely not on.
What we've wondered (only on the increasingly rare occasion OH drives, as I never use it) with Adaptive Cruise Control, when the car slows itself down because it's breached the distance to the car in front, do the rear brake lights come on?
(One of the reasons I do 99% of the driving is because my nerves can't stand OH's over-use of cruise control when it's not appropriate. Saves a lot of arguments!)
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Dec 2022
8:41am, 2 Dec 2022
74,748 posts
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Diogenes
Apologies, I must have read mushroom’s comment and thought we were talking about fog lights. I always have my lights on auto - I’ll have to check whether that means the tail lights are on at the same time. There is no physical manual, so it’s either via the information system or an online pdf.
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Dec 2022
8:50am, 2 Dec 2022
6,767 posts
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um
LD - If the adaptive cruise control is applying brakes (eg Ford ones do), then the brake lights will come on. if it's just removing the accelerator function, then no. Much the same as a real driver.
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Dec 2022
9:04am, 2 Dec 2022
37,326 posts
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LazyDaisy
Ah thanks Um, ours is a Ford so that's goid to know. Not that I'll ever use ACC unless we drive to the Alps one of these days (motorway pretty much the whole way.)
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Dec 2022
9:13am, 2 Dec 2022
19,821 posts
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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
All the Volkswagen Audi group cars (so including Skoda) put the rear lights on when you the lights are switched to "Auto", if that helps anyone!
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Dec 2022
9:34am, 2 Dec 2022
9,256 posts
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Eynsham Red
All the Volkswagen Audi group cars (so including Skoda) put the rear lights on when you the lights are switched to "Auto", if that helps anyone!
Not on my Škoda. It’s too old to have an auto function and just relies on this old codger to remember to do everything.
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Dec 2022
9:39am, 2 Dec 2022
9,487 posts
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GordonG
I wonder how many of those drivers of cars with blinding headlights also complain about how 'dazzling' cycle lights are.
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Dec 2022
9:43am, 2 Dec 2022
10,439 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I don’t really understand the logic behind manufacturers making the daytime running lights come on at the front but not the rear. I’ve been guilty of not realising my headlights aren’t on because of the running lights (but I’ve realised pretty quickly). It would be better if there was some sort of light at the rear too.
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