On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:22:28 -0000, wrote:

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:53:41 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 02/12/2016 04:33 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:48:05 -0000, Mr. Emann wrote:

On 2/12/2016 11:30 AM, philo wrote:

Yes, even with my lights in the "off" position there are still "running
lights". I don't know if there is anyway to turn them off completely

The daylight running lights on my truck will turn off when the emergency
brake is set. If I want to turn them off I just push the emergency brake
pedal just far enough to turn off the lights but not enough to engage
the brakes.

So people who use the emergency/hand/parking brake at junctions will
make their lights go on and off, that's really stupid.


It does have its drawbacks. My Toyota with DRL's did that and it was a
manual transmission. When I come home at night I stop at the cluster
mailbox to get the mail. If it's dusk or full dark, I sort through my
keys in front of the headlight. With that feature, I'd shift into
neutral, put the handbrake on, and my light source would go off.

No it would not. The headlights stay on. Only the DRL goes out with
the parking brake on.
DR:s are not headlights. In MOST cases they use the headlight bulb but
run at roughly half output. Some (like Chrysler Minivans) use the side
marker (AKA parking) lamps

He said "if it's dusk or full dark", so he was including a time of day when it's too early to need lights, and he'd just have the DRLs on.

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