While I'm having my little Dyspeptic Friday (see brakes in Bromp's Berlingo thread) can we look at something that's often asserted here that I have difficulty making sense of?
When we've discussed DRLs and their increasing prevalence on our roads, someone often says that it's bad for motorcyclists because it will make them harder to see. I can see that when a motorbike is one light among several it will be harder to pick out the motorcycle as an individual, but that would matter only if there was a particular motorbike a driver wanted to hit. If the greatest hazard to motorcycles is drivers failing to spot them before emerging from a junction then DRLs make no difference at all; not even the most a***witted driver will fail to see a host of golden DRLs bearing down on him, and it won't matter what kind of vehicles they're attached to.
The only motorcyclists I can think of who might have a problem here are those who insist on making motorways a menace by using the Hogwarts Express lanes at full motorway speed. But since they seem happy to do that in darkness, when (almost) everyone has lights on anyway, I can't see that a bit of extra illumination in daylight will make them think any harder.
What am I missing?
Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Fri 20 Feb 15 at 09:39
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