Why do so many people drive with fog lights on when it's not foggy?!?

scrummy cupcake

211: You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (see Rule 201) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves.
Law RVLR regs 25 & 27

obviously some people don't know what fog is...and think they have 'rain' lights not fog lights....

Chris B

Because they think they look cool. It's against the law, so why do they bother to do it? I only used to put mine on in real dark lanes, but turned them off soon after.

Rachael H

They are complete plonkers. Definitely a man thing, have you noticed that?

cato___

They drive with head lights on when its not heady and
with parking lights on when they aren't parking and with tail lights on when they aren't a piece of tail.... so...what's your point? :-p

sal

Drives me mad. Bloody idiots think they look cool I think.

WelshLad

I have come to the conclusion that they are just stupid

Fred C

Most of them are too dumb to realize there is an off switch for them. Have you noticed people that pay extra for after-market lights rarely use them except when there is bad weather or they are on the open road? People that have them as factory installed equipment are the dummies.

kittykat

short answer...they're idiots!

They fall into the group of people that don't put any lights on in fog at all, those who forget to turn their indicators off and worst of all those who feel the need to drive at 30mph in a 60mph zone when the visability is good and there is no other traffic on the road.....arghhhhh. Ok rant over (i feel better now!)

Madam just in case..

Firedogfire

Because they probably are not knowledgeable about the laws and what it is like to be on the other side of them. This is common sense they lack, we live in an over populated word and as people get older, influx of different cultures, the system does not enforce the wrong things they just let them slip by, and one day the if two those people cause accidents, with out blinking their eye. Unless they are a search and rescuer or forestry or officer, of course.

Bubba13

they are not just fog lights. most of todays vehicles are equipped with driving lights that are designed to stay on all the time.

whispernikki

cause they forget to turn them off, i hate it when people forget to turn their full beam off blinding!

TERRY READ

They do this to show them off, or it's a lady hanging her hand bag on the switch lol, but this is really annoying just like those who put in those brighter bulbs but dont re-allign there headlights so blinding all other drivers.
Any way it is illeagell but the police are too busy to nick but i wish they would.

I race cars

probably poor eye sight. or trying to be cool which they are not. they are as cool as an old person driving with the turn signal on for miles.

Paul B

Some do it because they don't know the law (visibility below 100m before they should be used) but others just forget to switch them off when it has been foggy. No, its not clever, just annoying

Joe Capo

It's just for a cool night effect, some people don't know any better, honestly it aint cool, and half of them have them positioned Up-Ward in my f*ckin eyes when Im driving.

rob1963man

On some cars the fog lights come on automatically. Sometimes people forget to turn them off.

The fog lights are not directed UPWARDS so they don't get in your eyes. If they bother you its because they're not aligned correctly.

Also.. people who usually complain about bright lights is because they STARE AT THEM when the other car is approaching. Why?
If you don't LOOK AT the bright lights they won't bother you.

I'd rather have a car with bright lights coming at me than to have one with NO LIGHTS coming at me.

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