On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:17:49 -0000, NY wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
newsp.0e18vcyvwdg98l@glass...
It's not dangerously close, I can see taillights easily in the fog. If I
can't, then I'm going so fast I'm going to run off the road anyway.

How close do you have to get before you can see the taillights of the car in
front? Fog lights allow you still to see the car at a much greater
distance - to allow for the normal 2-second rule

If you need 2 seconds to stop, please surrender your license.

plus an extra factor of safety because of the fog.

Er....fog doesn't make your brakes less effective.

If I can see a car in front, I can judge how far
away it is and know how safe it is to drive; if I can't see a car, driving
is much more difficult because you have to rely on trying to see kerbs,
white lines, trees etc to work out where the bends are.

If it's foggy, you should be driving slower to see non-lit things anyway, so you don't need the car in front lit at all.

As for damage, when the front of a car hits the back of a car, the front
gets 10 times more damage (due to health and softy regulations). I have
in fact had nothing more than a chip of paint on the back of my car,
whereas the woman (it's always a woman) that rear ended me lost a
radiator, both headlights, the bumper, and the bonnet.

That's very true. The first time I was rear-ended, when I was lead car at a
roundabout and the car behind thought I was going to set off but I judged it
not to be safe, my tailgate was slightly bent (though I managed to tie it
shut with my tow rope) but the other car lost his radiator. That was back in
the early 90s; I bet health and softy rules make modern cars even more
liable to crumple that those of late 80s/early 90s vintage.

ROFL! My colleague did the same, except he was the guy behind. The woman in front was too tentative. What excuse did you have for not going?

I had worse. I was waiting behind a woman who pulled halfway out into a junction, then proceeded to reverse (!) back into me when she realised something was coming. I blasted my horn, she jammed on her brakes, then panicked as she saw the other car swerve around her. It would have been funnier if there was something coming the other way and 4 of us had collided. Having her pay for the damage to 4 cars would have been hilarious.