Sean Bartnik (bartnik@HOTMAIL.COM) said on the date of 9/17/98 3:40 PM

>I have not found this to be the case.  As a "runner" for Enterprise
>Rent-A-Car, I found myself driving lots and lots of new GM cars with
>daytime running lights.  No GM cars use the high beams as the DRLs.
>That would just be retarded.  This is GM we are talking about, but
>still.  Some of their cars utilize the high beam POSITION on the front
>of the car (usually toward the center of the car) for the DRLs but the
>DRLs, regardless of their position, are significantly dimmer than even
>the low beams.

     Low power or not, if the DRL uses the high-beam lens and reflector,
it is aiming high and wide (so that drivers in the 40's could see
non-reflective signs, but that's another discussion), which is annoying.
It really isn't the power of the light that matters, it is where you
point it.

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