I have seen a handful of cars recently that have a bright red light in> their rear bumper, at night. It is usually about 1/3 of the way in from> the right-hand side of the bumper. This light is brighter than the car's> brake lights and even causes me some glare problems sometimes. What is> the purpose of this light exactly, and is there a legal brightness or> direction limit for taillights, like there is for headlights?

I have seen a handful of cars recently that have a bright red> light in their rear bumper, at night. It is usually about 1/3> of the way in from the right-hand side of the bumper. This light> is brighter than the car's brake lights and even causes me some> glare problems sometimes. What is the purpose of this light> exactly, and is there a legal brightness or direction limit> for taillights, like there is for headlights?>

Rear fog light. Only to be used in heavy fog, theoretically.>

nate>

I have seen a handful of cars recently that have a bright red>light in their rear bumper, at night. It is usually about 1/3>of the way in from the right-hand side of the bumper. This light>is brighter than the car's brake lights and even causes me some>glare problems sometimes. What is the purpose of this light>exactly, and is there a legal brightness or direction limit>for taillights, like there is for headlights?

Rear fog light. Only to be used in heavy fog, theoretically.

nate>

I wonder if the people who drive with the rear fog lights on all the >time ever wonder what that orange light on the dash means. Likewise, if >a red warning light lit up, would they even notice?>

I wonder if the people who drive with the rear fog lights on all the>time ever wonder what that orange light on the dash means. Likewise, if>a red warning light lit up, would they even notice?>

"Doug Warner" <dwarner22@ccharter­.net> wrote in message >news:oq1j71drmi51g­ccht7ebnbl1ohboloc2a­n@4ax.com...>Ulf <asdf@asdf.asdf> wrote:>

Some keep the front fogs on all the time, because, for some odd>reason, they want to see what's 10 feet in front of their car at 60>MPH. The rear fog comes on with it.

BMW drivers seem to be the worst offenders.

BMW drivers seem to be the worst offenders.

-------------> Alex>

Ah, Alex, as a BMW driver myself, I have undertaken a statistically> flawed study of my own which will henceforth gain the veracity of> having been published "on the Internet". In it, I determined that,> while BMW drivers may *seem* to be the worst offenders, it is simply> because BMWs are more noticeable cars. Not all of them have the fog> lamps turned on 24/7 (Mine certainly doesn't.).

Alex Rodriguez wrote:>>

Ah, Alex, as a BMW driver myself, I have undertaken a statistically> flawed study of my own which will henceforth gain the veracity of> having been published "on the Internet". In it, I determined that,> while BMW drivers may *seem* to be the worst offenders, it is simply> because BMWs are more noticeable cars. Not all of them have the fog> lamps turned on 24/7 (Mine certainly doesn't.). However, in a stunning> revelation, my manufactured results tell me that the worst offenders> are actually *Pontiac drivers*. You simply don't notice them because> Pontiacs fail to attract attention due to their ubiquity.