I liked that. That was very informative (hehe).
To take it a little further, they do indeed shine shorter and little to
the outside, not at oncoming traffic. This is because if you were driving
in fog with foglights that shined up into the air, it would blind you and
possibly cause you to wreck. They point down and to the outside so that
when you are driving in fog, you can see the line and shoulder of the
road, not the driver's eyes in an oncoming vehicle.
Gordon
On 31 Dec 1998 Shaun.Hendricks@bergenbrunswig.com wrote:
> Here's an excercise for all you "foglight sensitive" people (only for those
> with fog lights on their daks can test this).
>
> Tools for excercise:
> 1 Piece of white chalk
> 1 large dark "level" parking lot
>
> Take your Dak to the large dark parking lot. Turn on your headlights only.
> Take chalk and mark where the headlights contact the ground (big ovalesque
> shape). Turn off headlights and turn on foglights only (older Dak's may not
> be able to do this, the 97+ models can). Take chalk and mark where they throw
> their light. Turn on all lights and look at chalk marks. If your lights are
> properly adjusted, you will notice that your foglamps fall mostly short of the
> main lamps and wider to the sides, the top of the light circle barely reaching
> into the oval of the main lights, making a nice 'triangular' shape of light in
> front of the truck.
> What does this mean? It means that if you're being blinded by properly
> adusted "fog lights" then you are either directly in front or slightly to the
> side of the oncoming vehicle; laying on the ground. I can't speak for anyone
> else, but I don't think that's a safe place to be in either case. Your name
> could be "dumbass" but it would more likely be "roadkill" in a micro second or
> so.
> For those of us with correctly aligned fog lights who drive around with
> them always on (as I do for the safety of myself and my passengers) whenever
> the main lamps are on, it means that Darwinism will prevail and eventually all
> sensitive fog lamp people will be extinct from being run over.
> Now if you want to change your 'tude and say "I really hate people who
> drive around with poorly adjusted fog/driving lights" then I can understand
> that, I hate it too. Until then, I'd refrain from bagging on those of us who
> find it much easier to see infront of our trucks with our fog lamps on, as it
> also has a tendency to "freeze" small animals in their tracks on the side of
> the road so I don't run over them and I really hate killing small animals with
> my truck, it makes me feel bad.
>
> Shaun H.
> â ¤ @ÈK
> un H.
>
> ---original message---
> Don't mean to be a jerk, but... If you've got your headlights on plus your
> fog lights in clear weather at night you are a dumbass as far as I know.
> Your fog lights throw a much wider light path which will necessarily blind
> oncoming drivers when the weather is clear. I always thought this kind of
> irresponsibility was reserved for beemer and jap car drivers... I'll tell
> you plain, if it's a clear night and your on some old dirt road in VT and
> don't turn those fog lights off when a vehicle approaches, you'll run the
> risk of having 'em shot out... No Bull!
>
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