Maybe, Because I Don't Follow The Local News ????
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Crema Americana
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I've heard you're most likely to get ticketed for such infractions on the Provincia Routes... especially those coming into and out of the city. So maybe today a lot of vacationers are leaving / coming back from Mar de Plata or wherever and have their lights on.
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When I moved out of Sweden I had a very steep learning curve in order not to get hit by cars on the street. To me a car with its lights off was standing still... It doesn't help that they drove on the other side of the road as well.
I can understand how it can seem silly to be forced to have the lights on if you drive during the day in, say, Califonia or Queensland. The sunlight is so bright that you can't see the lamp anyway. But, then you enter a tunnel and all of a sudden you are invisible. Or a sudden tropical rainfall hits you and as you pull over because you can't see anything neither can the cars around you. Hopefully you checked that the brake lights aren't blown.
As Crema Americana pointed out the new cars have led lights that doesn't use up much of your precious fuel anyway. Peoples aggressive driving probably accounts for a bigger piece of that cake.
I can understand how it can seem silly to be forced to have the lights on if you drive during the day in, say, Califonia or Queensland. The sunlight is so bright that you can't see the lamp anyway. But, then you enter a tunnel and all of a sudden you are invisible. Or a sudden tropical rainfall hits you and as you pull over because you can't see anything neither can the cars around you. Hopefully you checked that the brake lights aren't blown.
As Crema Americana pointed out the new cars have led lights that doesn't use up much of your precious fuel anyway. Peoples aggressive driving probably accounts for a bigger piece of that cake.
we have had daytime running lights as a standard feature on cars in Canada for at least 20 yrs. If not more. You don't even think about it there, you turn on your car, your running lights come on. They are especially good to have during the times of day when it is hardest to see -- which is not in the middle of the night, but actually at twilight / dusk when the sun is transitioning. And as mentioned yes makes sense for tunnels. Here frankly it makes sense as well for all the tinted windows there are. People tint their windows extremely dark, and if the cars behind you have running lights on it's easier to see.
