Thoughts on keeping fog lights on all the time

I would hope that most, if not all, automobile enthusiasts would know that FOG lights are supposed to be aimed at the lowest possible level so that they won't illuminate the fog and blind the person driving the car that is using them. If real fog lights are aimed so badly that they are blinding oncoming drivers, perhaps you should take the blacksmith anvil out of the rear of the car so it won't keep affecting the gas mileage too.

The problem is that many jerks put auxiliary lights on their cars and then use extra bright bulbs and then aim them much higher than they should so that THEY can see clearly but they blind everyone else on the road. Those people should be shot, and I expect that some are (in some neighborhoods).

Take a look at the lighting pattern on a wall in front of your car. The regular beams have a pretty sharp cutoff. The fog lights are supposed to be lower than those, and the high beams, which in most cars are designed to only work when the fog lights are NOT on, are the highest pattern of all. A fog light that goes above the low beams is not only useless, it is dumb.

Actually, in retrospect, I am pretty sure that what we have on our cars might better be considered an auxiliary driving light, which is there for the looks rather than for use during an actual fog event. The cutoff is not sharp, the pattern is too general, but the light isn't all that bright and probably isn't going to bother people unless you put brighter bulbs in them.

Fog lights are low to the ground to let the light shine on the road while cutting through the least amount of fog. Fog reflects the light and blinds you more. The perfect scenario for driving in the fog is to have good low fog lights on and headlights off. Headlights are higher in the air and actually reflect more light back.

Also, fog lights do not need to shine a mile down the road, if you are in dense fog, you should be driving MUCH slower (remember the old rule, don't overdrive your headlights?)

We have fog now and then where I live but not often is it so dense to slow me down to 5 mph. I do wish I could turn the fogs on and the headlights off though, just for that once in 5 year occasion.

I will only use the fog lights on rainy nights turning into dark streets. If I want looks, well, I upgraded to the LED low beams. They look way cool enough. And then I don't have the chance of burning out a fog light too soon and look like a dork driving down the road with only half of a cool looking fog light...