The Internet has "fixes" for Damned Daytime Running Lights (DDRL)
They've been disabled on all my vehicles. There's no USA Federal requirement for them; there's no peer-reviewed science that says they're effective. All the crap GM promotes for them is junk science--most of it conducted in the Baltic Socialist countries that accept government interference as a routine part of life, coupled to high latitude which means lower levels of sunlight similar to Canada/Alaska.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) refuses to deal with DDRLs. If the NHTSA were functional, DDRLs would be illegal.
how feisty
I dont like how my park avenue DRL work, they engage when you put into gear and cannot be defeated normally.
This is annoying because I have had auto headlamps since my first 1990 car, but I make it a specific courtesy to not turn into like my old houses driveway without knocking down to park lamps so its not shining neighbors windows etc etc. if car is moving, they on. in park, it lets you turn off
2000 lesabre built that feature to chose to turn them off into the cars 2000-2005 AND they also made the good benefit of turning on drl/tail when wipers are on.
I would say most DRL benefits come from the periods in the day when people will drive without their headlights if they arent put on for them automatically. street lighting can make these fools dangerous.
but ive seen some modern ass cars doing this, so we never even fixed that lmao
But ultimately, in this current year ,nothing wrong with DRL if it can be defeated and is not your low beam lamps that source the,.But it would be overstatement to say its world changing
AMBER TURN SIGNALS, now those save lives.
Im not 100% certain passenger mirrors are still required yet or not, but all I know is that youre really worked up over a benign thing on most of those cars.
Im going to modify my park avenue with a simple enough mod so that it can be turned off. while moving
ALSO, 1990 canadian vehicles needed DRL factory, they used Key on 6 volts across
a lamp set, often the headlights. GM and ford like 9007 in a lot of stuff, so your headlights burnt out way more, ford and GM also undersized their electrical systems so that was ****** I bet, and gm drifted toward 9005/9006 combos and then just using 9005 at 6 volts for drl;, but not always.
canadian regs wouldnt allow my park avenue then, since it would not have DRL at key on engine runnin
