My car has driving lights that always stay on when it's turned on, I remember learning in driver safety class headlights help increase visibility during the day, meaning other cars seeing you.

It’s objectively safer to have them on during the day, assuming they are properly adjusted.

The problem is cars in the US now come stock with blinding washed out misadjusted poorly designed headlights because if other people are going to blind you, why would you buy a car that doesn’t blind them back?

I fucking hate this country.

Yeah, daytime running lights are becoming the new norm

Personally, anything that helps these wackadoo truck drivers from slamming into me is a win in my book

Good.

Surprised it wasn't mandated wherever you live.

In Argentina law says you must have your lights on when on roads since I can remember.

Depends on where you live, in the lights always have to be on even during the day.

arrive alive, don't drink and drive/see and be seen, put on ya lights

Daytime running lights

They're looking for an honest man

I'm all for people using headlights more often because most people have poor eyesight. The only problem is every car is a SUV so the headlights are right at eye level

it's a safer way to drive. I don't do it though and then also turn my headlights on way too late because I don't notice how dark it is. I don't mind it though. Better than those cars with those LED headlights that blind you at night at least.

Used to be the law here for a while, I think it still is in a lot of Nordic countries it’s about visibility some cars like Volvos automatically turn the lights on

As everyone else has already said, it's been shown that it actually helps to reduce traffic accidents. I was unaware until this thread that it was legally mandatory in so many other places, but around where I live, there have always been "daytime headlight corridors," sections of roads and highways with signs up informing drivers their headlights should be on for the next however many miles/kilometers. I was told that their purpose was to study whether daytime headlights did in fact help in a statistically significant way. But I'm pretty sure that had already been established a long while back, and the corridors are just particularly dangerous stretches of highway with no physical barrier separating on-coming traffic, making daytime headlights along that section of road a very good idea.

My car looks cooler with the lights on. Also it's dramatically safer.

The motorcycle I just bought doesn't even have the option to turn the headlight off. Apparently on the European models the switch that turns on the high beams can also turn the lights off, but they use a different one for the American market for some kind of safety compliance reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

Visibility.

Many cars have Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) that are always on so as to draw more attention to cars during times like dusk or dawn where light is waining and it’s not dark enough to trigger auto headlights.