The "general public" has been trained by a decade of dipshiits who drive around with fog lamps, and their low-beams--four friggin' headlights in-town, with oncoming traffic. This on top of two decades of GM Arrogance in regard to Damned Daytime Running Lights (DDRL) which has NO scientific basis. There is not one science-based study conducted in North America and which has survived a peer-review process looking for errors and bias. The junk-science "studies" that "prove" DDRLs improve safety are 1) almost universally from high-latitude Socialist Baltic countries, where daylight isn't as bright as in the Lower 49 States, and government intrusion is welcomed, and 2) they were never peer-reviewed.
I contacted GM asking for science-based information that justified their DDRLs. They sent me press releases instead!
A guy could burn-out his brights flashing everyone who deserved it. I suspect most folks just don't bother any more, because the four-headlight morons are growing more numerous.
I've complained on various forums, and what I hear in response is kids who think turning on the fog lights is a STYLING TREATMENT that makes their car LOOK COOL. They have zero consideration of other motorists.
There's simply no end to the stupidity of average people.
Y'know what I learned last week? The amber-colored lenses do a great job of cutting headlight glare and sharpening-up my vision. They're cheap Big-Box-Store safety glasses, not even a prescription lens. I paid less than $10 for 'em. The only "downside" to them is that while red lights are still red, and yellow lights are still yellow, green lights look kinda blue.