CA has a law to turn on your head lights w/your wipers

Sorry, didn't look at the picture that good. Yeah It's been raining here for almost a week.

 

I've seen state troopers with only one running head light. I also saw a a sheriff speeding on the causeway (that they don't police) using his lights so he can speed across it. We all break laws even cops, no ones perfect....

 

i think it is very annoying when people dont turn on their lights when its raining or even after raining, when the roads are still soaked. try driving a semi and a car is a long side you without their lights on, but you cant see them because of the mist being kicked up from the tires....

 

its a law in florida but some don't even turn on their ws wipers

 

i really don't like drl...i mean i can see the car better if they don't have lights on...now if it's raining badly enough to make it hard to see just turn your lights on...that makes sense....it seems alot of people turn their lights on way too early when it's not even dark yet...that is annoying to me since it blinds me from seeing the road when i face oncoming traffic with lights in my eyes...but if it's sunny and lightly raining there's no need to turn your lights on since you can see fine

 

Seriously? If you can't see when someone else has their lights on, during the day! Then how the hell do you see at night?

 

Actaully it's been proven that having lights on during the day makes your vehicle about 30% more visible-Thus reducing accidents.
Plus you don't need to see the car-You need to know where it is in relation to you and which relative direction it's going. Lights do that (just like on boats and airplanes)

 

That is law in many states including mine. I am a truck driver and it is common practice for truckers to run they're lights 24/7. Cause like Brunes said it makes you more visible.

 

It's not the rain coming down on a contiuous basis, it's operating your windshield wipers on a continuous basis. As opposed to intermittent.

(2) A condition requiring the windshield wipers to be in continuous use due to rain..

You can operate your wipers on intermittent with your headlights off (in CA).
It doesn't make much sense to me, but that's the way they wrote the law.

 

It's the law in Illinois too. I moved from there 4 years ago. Funny thing, I was turning on my lights when it rained before a law was in place.

 

To me, it's common sense to turn my lights on in the rain.

 

isn't using your cell phone while driving illegal in CA also?

 

South Carolina has had that law for a Loooooong time now.

 

Not while operating an emergency vehicle. It's an exception written into the law

 

What he said.

 

i leave my lights on all the time. it is a law in IL as well though.

 

Agree!