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Interesting reading , however , the quantity of atrocious driving and deplorable driver attitude seen on the roads now , you wouldn't believe there was a highway code any more

Never mind foglights for a minute , what about the low grade morons who were driving around today in a steekit mist wi no f****ng lights at all ? !!! Hell mend you if you have a crash , just feel sorry for the poor sausage who hits you idiots cos they cant see you.

By your own admission, you have never driven in heavy, multi lane traffic in fog. When you're faced with a couple of hundred sets of tail/brake lights in front of you for hours on end, then believe me, you'll soon get fed up with those whose glaring fogs make life harder. eg: Night, just clear of fog and raining. Three solid lanes of traffic moving at 70mph. Cars to left and right of you. You've eased off the gas to regain your two second gap as the traffic up ahead bunches up. A quick look in your rear mirror to check behind on the car that's a bit on the close side, look forward again and there's a moments indecision whilst your brain works out if that car that's just dived into the gap in between you and the car in front is braking hard to avoid a collision or if it's their fog lights glaring at you. Brake hard to avoid a collision or ignore? Make the wrong call on a motorway or dual and it could be your last one.... It's a bit different from having just one or two sets of lights in front of you to worry about.........

OK, lets clear a few things up: In fog, you have no control over the actions of the driver behind, therefore it's in your interest to help them out as much as possible. If you can see the vehicle behind you NOT just the lights - then they can see you - so no need for the Christmas decorations to be in full swing. If you leave your rear fogs on, there is a very real chance that the driver behind may not see your brake lights coming on, bear in mind that some drivers don't pay attention at the best of times..... Stopping distances? Sorry, that's almost an irrelevance in this situation as you have no control over how close the car behind you is going to be. Also, the dimmer members of the driving community will hang on to the vehicle in front in heavy fog. Regarding your comment about maintaining the correct distance and not being able to dazzle/be dazzled - sorry, but that is an idealistic situation. BTW, for assessing your own distance from the car in front, the Two Second Rule is much more efficient than trying to assess some abstract measurement. Don't forget to double it in the wet. Could you tell me the correct distance for heavy traffic speeding up and slowing down between 5 and 20mph? There isn't one on the HC..... Heavy traffic will inevetibly bunch up at some point, reducing safety bubbles around vehicles. Add in drizzle, fog and poorly managed foglights into the mix and cars can and will start bouncing off each other. Or, at best, you'll get pished off with the car in front for blinding you and the driver behind will not be your friend for doing the same to him/her...... Plan ahead and drive safe, folks.

If you can see the vehicle behind you - then they can see you, so fog lights off - they are unnecessary and stand a chance of masking your brake lights. You would not have to be 'too close' to the vehicle in front to be dazzled by their rear fogs, in fact, if there is moisture/drizzle forming on the windscreen, or it is dark and wet it can cause glare that, again, masks brake lights. As for being conditions being too challenging to operate a simple switch and be aware of how your actions are affecting other road users: May I suggest you take the bus?