[Ducati] Daytime running lights (Was: Traction Control in the AMA)

[nicholas ivan fisher]

Daytime running lights are grossly over rated.

So they let you see a car 300 feet further down the road (or whatever the
statistic is).  The roads where i can see that far are long and straight and
generally unobscured. If i need more help seeing cars in such an enviroment
I shouldn't be driving

Where seeing cars as soon as possible is useful is on twisty and/or
obscured roads where you can't see more then 100 feet or so down the road
anyhow.  And if the lights are required for you to see the cars at that
distance, then you again, shouldn't be driving.

DRL were someone looking at the numbers and not thinking about if they'd
really be usefull or not.


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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:06:02 -0700
> From: "Rob Allen" <ducati.rob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ducati] Traction Control in the AMA
> To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
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> On 5/31/06, frugalyankee-cycles at yahoo.com <frugalyankee-cycles at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was a member and ardent AMA supporter for many years.  But they
> dropped
> > the ball not going after the cage manufacturers with the DRL's (daytime
> > running lights).  We lost a valuable safety tool.  Anyone think they'll
> do
> > anything with using cell phones while driving problem?....
> >
> > Brad
> > CT.
> >
> >
> I actually don't have a problem with DRL's.  If someone sees me on my bike
> and mistakes me for a Chevy pickemup truck, who am I to complain?  ;-)
>
> I heard that California just passed a law that says if you get caught
> driving while talking on a cell, there's a $50 fine.  Okay, so $50 ain't
> much, but at least it's something.
>
> --
> -- Rob Allen