Re: rear fog light/front fog

[BRIT4VWS@aol.com]

In a message dated 01/08/1999 7:50:38 AM Pacific Standard Time,
hglesner@ast.lmco.com writes:

<< Would some one PLEASE explain to me why all of these people 
 run around town, during the day or night miss using head lights and 
 driving lights. Its rude beyond all understanding. Berthoud pass at 
 night with no on coming traffic is one thing, but blinding people in 
 town under blocks and blocks of mercury vapor lights make no sence. 
 Not to mention the SUV/Truck "things" that already have their head 
 lights a rear window height, then compound the problem with projector 
 driving lights on all the time(Dodge Dakotas,Ford Expedtions etc).
 	People have lost all sence of civility, its become ME,ME,ME! 
 Aren't I cool with me driving lights on blinding everyone around me. 
 Lets see that seems to be the same group of people that weave all 
 over their "lane" on I470 @ 80mph talking on the phone while piloting 
 their Suburbans allown. The same people that will not think twice 
 about turning left over a double yellow line on Broadway (not from a 
 turn lane) and screw up the street for blocks and cause any number of 
 "close calls", or real metal to metal problems.
 	Please don't come back to me and say that you point the 
 driving lights down, so that makes it ok...I don't think so, your 
 still putting out the offending light, it's just not aimed in our 
 faces.
 	It's not legal in the state of Colorado to run more that two 
 sets of lights at a time, and I've yet to look into the legality of 
 this miss use of hight performance lighting, and if the legislation 
 is not in place I'm going to lean on my reps to craft laws to make 
 such self serving miss use illegal.
 	
 Rick Glesner
 Littleton, Colorado
 '91 90q20v
 '82 911 SC Porsche
 '83 Rx-7 SCCA Spec Racer #27	 >>

Well Rick, I must say that I will be fighting you on this one because I think
it is safer to have you lights on during the day.  That is why countries like
Canada and Sweden require it.  I do believe on limitations on brightness but
the point is that they are for safety.  I must agree with you on that suburbia
mom driving down C-470 (not I-470) at 80 maybe even 90 while talking on the
phone and screaming at the kids in the back seat or if there is no one else in
the car looking for something on the floor.  People here don't take driving as
seriously as need be especially the way traffic in this Denver Metro area is
getting with now almost 2.5 million people living in such a space what else
can you expect.  As for auxiliary lighting some of us out there on those roads
need that extra light to be able to see because the headlights on are cars are
limited by the government of this country and just don't light the road worth
a crap but they also shove enough light into your eyes too.  I don't agree
with people having them on during the day at all but there are always idiots
out there.  What I really dislike is people driving with their rear fogs on
when it is totally clear out.  I was driving behind an A4 with them on on the
turnpike and it was almost blinding in-between Sheridan and Pecos.

Britt
87 4000 CS quattro
88 Jetta
Drive both with lights on during day
73 Bug
:-( doesn't have lights right now