Front fog lights

I'm in US, and I agree that the use of fog lights is hazardous to oncoming traffic as well as traffic in front of the abuser. Did you notice that these knuckleheads usually tailgate as well. I call fog lights the "idiot lights" on the outside of a vehicle. If lawmakers had any backbone, they would outlaw their use other than in thick fog and at a speed of less than 25 mph.

Is anyone aware of a study that shows the effect fog lights have on the brightness of low-beam headlights? I think there's something going on with the light waves that intensifies the low-beam light to the eyes.

Yes it is an offence but it is almost impossible to prosecute for it. You'd have to prove that the driver had deliberately switched them on and not just accidentally left them on from the last occasion it was foggy. Some cars do automatically switch them off when you turn your normal lights off, others don't. Until this is standardised you cannot really persue it.

Surely this is an offence, just about everything else is. Yet PC Plod doesn't seem that bothered.

More likely their eyesight has been detrimentally affected by overindulgence in pleasuring themselves. Perhaps the doctors in the old days were right after all!

I agree with your point of view completely Fog lamp vigilante, perhaps their eyesight has been affected by the vibrations from the "jack hammer" music(???) that they insist on playing at full volume too??
I have also noticed an increasing number of these morons have found their way onto the motorway network, and not only insist on using their fog/driving lights, but also have their headlights on Main Beam too, just to make night driving even more hazardous for everyone else.

At the end of the day, we all know the "type" of people who use their fog lights, whenever visibility is n't perfect. They have adversely affected their eyesight, by activities unknown, and need assistance seeing in the dark or when it rains or when their friends can see them driving around the estates, sometimes with a police car chasing them! At the end of the day, unless visibility has been reduced by heavy fog, just use headlamps when it is dark, and don't use them when its light, there are sometimes street lamps on in built up areas, just to help with these difficult decisions.

If headlamps are correctly adjusted, they are quite adequate at putting the light where it needs to be - on the ROAD ahead - not in other drivers eyes. Drivers (using the term very loosly) who feel the need for fog/driving lights to be on in well light areas should not be out alone at night, because their eyes definately need to be tested ASAP.
I have yet to see a car, that is using fog/driving lights, having them correctly adjusted, and the light is going everywhere except where it is needed. So how people who feel the need to use these lights, (which lets face it, have become more of a fashion accessory than a useful tool to aid driving) can say they make driving in country lanes easier, I don't know.
Yet we see cars more cars using these lights in well lit high streets than in country lanes ( a bit like 4X4s).
What really annoys me too, are people who don't know where their DIP SWITCHES are, and drive on main beam (headlights as well as those damned fog/driving lights), but I have found that if they don't take the hint, after being flashed, a quick, but small, swerve towards them tends to make them put them out Ha Ha ha.;But NOT recommended on narrow roads.

Interesting thoughts by Daffy Darren - however, I would wonder if he is a lorry driver? This is not necessarily the ability to drive well, but just to drive a larger vehicle than others. Usually I find that front fog-lights are used by those who have no other way of improving the ego of someone with an inferiority complex. And before DD replies, I was reversing triple articulating trailers at 13 yrs old, carry an HGV and drive 40k miles per annum

they look nice at a car show. (or meet). but they shouldnt be on unless there need to be.

A PROFESSIONAL driver!!!!! YOUR attitude stinks of I'M ALRIGHT JACK. I doubt your a professional driver, I AM a professional driver and I mean a proper driver and if you knew anything about front fog lamps you would know that the bulb inside has a cover over them to shine the light downwards, so when on, in particular in the rain they shine down and reflect up of the road into other "proper" road users eyes.AND to bring it to your tiny insignificant attention it is illegal to use front or rear fog lamps at any other time than driving in fog. Not sure whether you will understand but the clue is in there name FOG LAMPS!

God - do you also have those LED's on your washer jets? Don't tell me, they help illuminate your spray better and produce a more effective ambient light and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot?

Front fogs in the dark do not make any difference in the ability to drive around country lanes safely and/or at speed. FACT! Otherwise, why aren't they compulsory on all cars if they are such a significant safety measure? They are an optional extra for fools who perhaps are not sure which bit of the road they should be looking at.

Anyone who has a problem with people using fog lights on dark country lanes is clearly a c*u*n*t and should have their liberty and rights removed from them. I am a professional driver and I can confirm that they no NOT blind any oncoming traffic. If you think that they do, then maybe you should consider you ability to drive and perhaps surrendering your licence in order to make way for competent people who actually have some sort of use on this planet. Clearly you haven't enough going on in you life to occupy you time or nothing more exciting to do than sit around grimacing at the prospect of people using their fog lights. Oh Dear Lord! Not the fog lights! Nooooooooooooo! Get a life you small minded, pinchy-assed tosspots