Maybe this slides (in Spanish, about benefits of DRL) would help you to know more about it:
What do you think about daytime running lights?
There is also a Association of Drivers Against Daytime Running Lights
Maybe this slides (in Spanish, about benefits of DRL) would help you to know more about it:
What do you think about daytime running lights?
There is also a Association of Drivers Against Daytime Running Lights
Comentarios
I living in Poland. In my country DRL is mandatet since 2 years.
DRL are wery bad idea. In Poland accident's rate grown, since DRL was mandated 17 april 2007.
In Poland accidents rate diminish about 4-5% all year since 2000.
This situation was stoped in 2007.
Especialy accidents with pedestrials grown about 2%, motorbikes accident grown about 14,6% (!), cyclist accident grown about 2 %,
all accidents in day time grown about 6,5%.
In night time accidents rate grown about 10%. Lot of cars has defected lights, and it's wery dangerous.
DRL mandatory will be propably liquidate in 2009. Austria did it 01.01.2008, and Croatia did it too.
In Austria accidents rate diminished about 5%.
80% of Polish drivers are aganists of DRL's.
DRL's growing petrol consumption and destroing enviroment.
Lot of people passed away in consequention of this.
I haven't any problems to see car with no DRL's, and lot of drivers in Poland, including me, are breaking this mandatory, and traveling by car with no DRL's in daytime.
I was i Sweden too, and in Norway.
I don't want be like this Idiots.
25% of Swedish and Norwegian cars has a defected lights !
You want to be like former sowiet country (Latvia). My gratulation's... .
I will be this sommer in Spain. And I will traweling with NO DRL's.
Look on this website: http://www.dadrl.org.uk/
Don't be stupid! Turn off the lights!
I was in Poland this October, and I think that you have a problem with the roads ant drive behaviour.
And please, don't mix politics with DRL :-)
The number of accidents with pedestrians by hitting them on pedestrian crossing has gone up by 20% - 20% more people died , 20% more were injured.
There were also more accidents of giving the way for pedestrians (2045 of such type accidents in 2006 and 3098 in 2007 - also 50% more people died and were injured then the year before).
Same thing with bikers - almost 40% more accidents and 40% more fatalities.
This is not a problem of roads and behaviour on roads - the roads haven't signifficantly changed since 2006 and 2007 - the effects of lights mandatory are so horrible.
If you know the problem - in 2006 in Poland has died 1802 pedestrians - in 2007 that was 1951 !!
In the whole 2007 there was more fatal accidents + 340 people died than the year before (this is 6,5% more) also there was 2660 more crashes (+5,7%) and 4101 people more were injured (+6,9%).
It could be nothing strange but from 1997 every year the road safety has been changing for better (from 7311 fatalities a year in 1997 to 5243 in 2006).
Visibility of just cars in some conditions doesn't help to improve road safety. Try to understand that.
Same thing as happened in Poland , has happened in Austria - they quit the "deaththroughlights24" programme and the european commision has also QUIT from the idea of using dimmed-beam lights instead of day running lights (another type of lights such as antifog lights)....
Think about it - the part of Sweden, Norway and Finland lays beyond the 66' N - so the night last there HALF A YEAR and it's dark there (not much sun gets there). When they have night for 19 or even 24 hours in the winter how can they drive without lights ?
Oh and another thing - see how much people lives there and how much square kilometers they have. Maybe that will be the answer why they use lights, and don't have much pedestrians because it's cold there for the bigger part of year...
- How many accidents was the lights an part of the accident?
- Has been increasend the numbers of motorcycles in the road of Poland? (We have now a lot of accident of motorcycles, even without DRL, because there are more motorcycles in our roads...)
- How many accidents alcohol or tiredness is not involved?
Thanks for the points that you have arised.
About Sweden... I was up to 66'N during summer, and I can say that lights were useful. It's just my experience.
There are simply 50% more of some kind of crashes type - nothing on roads conditions has changed to cause that situation except using dimmed beam lights. From 10 years the road safety every year has improved with good results... lights on cars daytime caused many crashes and dangerous drivers behaviour which I have seen...
- Has been increasend the numbers of motorcycles in the road of Poland? (We have now a lot of accident of motorcycles, even without DRL, because there are more motorcycles in our roads...)
No - people have buyed 5500 new bikes + imported 35 thousand to the 1 milion we have here .... This is +4% (but almost nobody keeps a bike for 20-30 years - some find their end on junkyards)
- How many accidents alcohol or tiredness is not involved?
In 2007 there were about 20% less drivers on alcohol/drugs (160.000 in 2007 vs 200.000 in 2006). They caused less accidents, a 13,1% of all accidents ... in 2006 they caused 13,6 % of all accidents.
From 2002 till 2006 there was a significant change in accidents caused by drunk people
2002 - 7801 accidents
2006 - 6392 accidents
so average about 350 less accidents every year.
In 2007 drivers of cars caused 7% less accidents (223 less from the whole number of ~~3400 accidents)
There were more accidents caused by drunk bicyclists ...
About Spain - I was there couple years ago for summer/atumn and I can say in your weather conditions lights are completly useless - and they could increase the number of accidents and fatal crashes as they did in Austria and Poland. Also Croatia has quit from this idea...
I wrote they could - but I am nearly sure that they WILL DO IT - I am writing this because I've seen how bad it is now in my country...