Fog Light Laws

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: Pariah
I believe it's illegal in most if not all states to have fog lights on while you have your high beams on. Shouldn't really be an issue because I've never seen a car wired from the factory that didn't shut the fogs off when you turn your high beams on. You can't drive in the dark with just fog lights on either. It's also illegal in some areas to have your fog lights on when there is no adverse weather. Not sure why. Never heard of anyone being ticketed for it either.

what pisses me off is that most people with the driving lights have them aimed up instead of on the road,

That's where driving lights are supposed to be aimed. If they are aimed at the road, they are not driving lights, they're fog lights. Real fog lights should also be yellow because they won't reflect back as much light off of white snow and fog as a white light will.

Yea I put yellow bulbs in my fog lights cus there's a couple of rivers over here in LA and sometimes in the mornings it gets so foggy you can't see 10ft in front of you.

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: exdeath

Originally posted by: ayabe

I honestly think FHP/Sherrifs just don't give a crap about a lot of the laws.

Because most law enforcement personal are normal reasonable people, except in a few totalitarian big cities with budget problems.

The purpose of the law is to serve justice, not necessarily the will and whim of government. Enforcement of the law should be to serve justice, it should not simply be enforced solely because it is the law:

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Thomas Jefferson

Though you should respect the equal rights of other individuals and make sure they are installed and aimed correctly, except when the other individual voluntarily puts himself in extreme circumstances (eg: a person who lowers their car 0.1" off the ground can't really complain about other cars' factory lights blinding them).

I agree completely and actually I'm very happy that I don't live in CA for instance where they frequently inspect CARB numbers and have a reputation of being pretty inflexible.

By the letter of the law my exhaust exceeds the db limit, even though it's not that loud, really.