Somebody
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So, I never really understood this. Every country seems to have its specific laws/regulations/customs, and the UK (despite supposedly being part of the EU and therefore in theory completely standardized with the rest of it) has a lot of it's own weirdness. The one thing I never really understood is whats the deal with those under-bumper lights there? It seems every UK resident has their own opinion, and the law doesn't offer a decent explanation either.
There seems to be two different explanations given by two different generations of people
-Older people: They are front fog lamps, and are ONLY for use in fog or low visibility, and their use in normal driving is illegal and also socially frowned upon.
-Younger people: They are additional low-beam lamps to supplement the low beam of the main headlamps and increase visibility, and can be used any time you want, because they have a low beam pattern they don't dazzle people and are effectively like a 2nd pair of low-beam headlamps. They are unrelated to the 'front fog lamp' concept which died out some time in the dark distant past (along with the rolling free license bracket set at 25 years, leaded gas and parking facing away from the flow of traffic being illegal and enforced).
So, whats the deal? Does anybody know the defined answer to this?
Some people seem to drive around with them on all the time whenever their normal headlamps are on, some people call those first group of people stupid and pretentious, and some people call those 2nd ground of people outdated. Its confusing. While the law doesn't seem to say anything useful (unless it does?)
There seems to be two different explanations given by two different generations of people
-Older people: They are front fog lamps, and are ONLY for use in fog or low visibility, and their use in normal driving is illegal and also socially frowned upon.
-Younger people: They are additional low-beam lamps to supplement the low beam of the main headlamps and increase visibility, and can be used any time you want, because they have a low beam pattern they don't dazzle people and are effectively like a 2nd pair of low-beam headlamps. They are unrelated to the 'front fog lamp' concept which died out some time in the dark distant past (along with the rolling free license bracket set at 25 years, leaded gas and parking facing away from the flow of traffic being illegal and enforced).
So, whats the deal? Does anybody know the defined answer to this?
Some people seem to drive around with them on all the time whenever their normal headlamps are on, some people call those first group of people stupid and pretentious, and some people call those 2nd ground of people outdated. Its confusing. While the law doesn't seem to say anything useful (unless it does?)