Automotive → Re: How long to discover a weird feature on your car?

It is so they see you.

If they can't see me in the daylight without my lights on,

Personally, I wish more cars would simply come with automatic headlights.

And then you have those dipshit drivers that drive day or night with their high beams on all the time, I swear they do it because they like the blue indicator lit up on their dash or because they are so fat they hit the lever or switch as they insert themselves into the vehicle. I am leaning more on the latter since its often these folks that like to do apex turns (wide turns) swerving in the opposite direction before they turn because they can't rotate the steering wheel enough (either because weak or flappy arms).

Often its rigged to the High beam filament which burns at a fraction of its normal intensity which is much weaker than standard low beams, at any rate the wear and tear on that filament is still low.

And then you have those dipshit drivers that drive day or night with their high beams on all the time, I swear they do it because they like the blue indicator lit up on their dash

Also, recongise that DRLs are not the same as headlamps

This is why people who drive with the switch set in "Auto" end up driving around being less than visible in low light conditions; people cannot see them from behind, particularly during dusk/twilght.

The "smarter" vehicles, phones and homes get, the dumber the general population gets.

This is one reason I detest a lot of these "safety" devices like lane departure

That was precisely my point. If they can't see me in the daylight without my lights on, they have no business being on the road. To me, DRLs are a solution in search of a problem.

ABS is only present on vehicle to preserve steering capability and directional control when they are in a hard braking event. Steer around the obstacle while braking - but almost no one does this.