If a person wants to turn off the daytime lights, they should be able to do it. All this automatic think-for-you crap they keep pushing on us is really getting on my nerves.

 

I agree with you.

But not on DRLs because they improve safety.
They just may save your life when that senior citizen just barely does notice your car at dusk only because you had DRLs.

 

Again, however, there are times when they need to be off, so you should be able to turn them off. I am all for recommending that they be on while driving, but people aren't always driving in their car and they should be able to control that stuff. Making stuff so it can't be controled by the driver is doing too much thinking for us. Period.

 

In Texas this isnt true. And I doubt pretty much anywhere else too. In Volvos, the instruction manuals tell you how to disable the lights. ALl you do is turn a screw on the light panel. They are designed to be turned off. For the record, nobody is getting tickets for not having their daytime running lights on.

The daytime running lights "requirement" on new cars lost steam years ago. Its a leftover concept no longer in play. That being said, I do not doubt statistical safety benefits, but driving a hybrid in itself is of much greater safety benefit due to safer slower driving in general.

I'd like to have the option of turning mine off if I want without having to remove the fuse.

BTW- Does the Prius have daytime running lights?

 

Yes, I'm afraid you must suffer because most people are stupid. Welcome to America, land of the lowest-common-denominator.

I don't have a particular objection to having an "off" switch for them, but where do you draw the line? Do you want a switch to turn off the ABS, too? It's not like Honda made it a secret that the car had them.

DRL's are passive, not like automatic rain-sensing wipers (which startle the hell out of me when they kick in).

I don't really see this as a major issue. If you can just pull the fuse and disable them, I'd do it and be happy.

 

this is REALLY a good one... man, I got today 67.6 mpg for a 45.7 miles drive today. I will drive back home for 15 miles and I will end somewhere above 65 mpg.

I'm kind of satisfied with my FE, EVEN NOW THE LIGHTS ARE ON

I dont care to much of them because:

1) I dont see them anyway
2) Any extra safty over zero is good, doesent matter how significat is comparred to the other ones. Personally I believe that with those on I am more visible on the streets/highway...
3) I strongly believe that the FE is not affected by turning those light OFF, or it's so small that's negligeable. With these cars there are way better ways to save on gas that turning lights off... hahahaha

 

blinkard: what automatic rain-sensing wipers??

 

UMMM.....so does all of this mean there isn't anyway to turn off the Daytime lights without pulling a fuse?......Thats all I was really asking to begin with....

 

name a few times when those lights should be off....

like a), b) c)...

 

I was driving a friend's Buick Behemoth on a road trip one time and the car detected a drop of moisture on the windscreen and turned the wiper on. Startled the hell out of me and I swerved. (Okay, so I'm jumpy.)

Something like that does need a switch so you can turn it off.