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Originally Posted by cb550
About the blured bikers already standing out.I was thinking more about the safety of the responsible biker who is bothered about his/her safety and that of other road users.
Just to go off that,as a car driver I've seen many examples of reckless riding  ,and as a bike rider I've been on the receiving end of many examples of reckless driving . |
I can see your point, the reckless ones don't need the lights, you've got little choice even if you do notice them. I guess the issue is not when moving with traffic, it is when approaching a side road with a car behind, a bike just looks like a third headlight.
Wikipedia has a few reasons for daytime running lights, although it seems they were always supposed to be lower wattage, its the car makers that complained and changed to low beam. In Sweden they were initially called perception lights.
With an interesting quote....
"Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRL were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp