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> >Or, they just might not want bright high beams behind them.  Either way,
> >they move over, which is sort of the point.
> 
> If you have the rear lights as well, what am I supposed to do?
> The only thing I can do is move over, pass you, get in front
> of you and turn my rear fog lights on.  ;-) Do you have *rear*
> fog lights as well?  It seems to me some people aren't
> even aware they have them on their car, much less that
> they are on and are dazzling the drivers who are behind
> them.

Ever since Ford bought Jaguar, Dearborn/Detroit freeways (near Ford's
WHQ) have been heavily populated by Ford execs driving Jaguars. This is
fine, except that the Jags have those rear fog lamps, and the Ford guys,
used to driving American cars which are not so equipped, seem to leave
them on ALL THE TIME. 

Rear fog lights can be a boon in heavy fog, but such weather is
extraordinarily rare in my neck of the woods. So whatever benefits they
have are heavily outweighed by the annoyance factor to other drivers,
especially at rush hour (gets dark around five during the winter) when
you are stuck behind one of these morons, boxed in and unable to pass.

The problem is, since the majority of these people have no idea that
their car is equipped with these rear lights, there is no signal to give
them to turn them off. Flashing your high beams doesn't work--at best,
they move over (thereby annoying the driver next to you), and at worst
they simply give you the one finger salute.  



Joshua Turner
97 Taurus SHO
 


> Robert