Re: rear fog lamps

["Tomas Leveckis" <leveckis@ici.net>]

>Date: Tue, 4 Aug 98 01:38:52 -0700
>From: Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>
>Subject: Re: rear fog lamps
>
>Phil Payne decided to speak these words:
>
>>Yes.  We've discussed this before.  There's a _reason_ why only one side
>>is connected - rear fogs are many tims brighter than rear sidelights and
>>mask the startle effect of the brake lights.  Run with rear fogs on
>>both sides of the car and your chances of being rear-ended actually
>>_increase_ quite significantly.
>
>
>I passed by a range rover last night...somewhat foggy, they had their
>rear fogs on...both sides were lit...the only way i could tell that they
>werent brake lights was because the high 3rd light wasnt lit...and even
>then it took a few seconds to realize...
>
>very very irritating
>
>later...
>
>
>Michael Sheridan Williams
>ICQ# 11740998
>


the latest model of the pointiac grand am has 'fog lights' on the back.....I
mean real
fog lights.....they're not the reverse lights, they're separate......they
look just like the
fogs on the front........I wonder how they operate....

Tom