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On provincial roads, more than half of the cars drive without dipped beam. Old Nivas, Grants and used Mercedes driving around with boring dimensions. Is this legal and
There has been absolute chaos with headlights for the past three years. Some install ‘collective farm’ spotlights, while others save low beams during the day. The result is that you have to fight blindness at night and frantically peer at the horizon during the day to see if the faceless ‘Flying Dutchman’ will appear there.
It is no surprise that road safety is appalling. During the day you begin to overtake, and at the most unexpected moment a barely noticeable gray silhouette appears behind the shadows, frighteningly close. We have to dive back and wait for the next “window”. “Invisible” vehicles are especially dangerous at dusk, in fog and out of season, when dirt flies onto the windshield and further reduces vehicle visibility.
Many motorists, of course, turn on their headlights, indicating their conscious aversion to low beams, but weak lamps are not visible even from a distance of 50 meters, and a dirty body blends in with the gray road, creating emergency situations. .
If you ask your friends why they stopped turning on the low beams, many are perplexed, because they have “daytime running lights”, and point to the dim bulbs. It is especially strange to hear about ‘running lights’ on Nivas or Bukhankas. The same DRLs can be found on old Audi 80 “Bochka”, “Mercedes” 124 and other rarities 30 years old. And when you make it clear that these “dimensions” have nothing in common with “running lights”, many are genuinely indignant. After all, lights are lights, the car is running, so here are the DRLs. Or maybe everything really is legal?
Low beam lights became mandatory in 2005, when further changes were made to road rules to reduce frontal collisions on motorways. And in 2010, the rules were again adapted to the new car standards. In section 19.5 of the Road Rules, a rule appeared stating that “during the day, the dipped beam or daytime running lights (DRLs) must be switched on on all moving vehicles to enable them to be identified.” And many saw this indulgence in DRLs as permission to drive without low beams. But regular ‘dimensions’ are not DRLs at all.
Sidelights in headlights have a second name: parking lights and are used to identify a vehicle on the side of the road in poor visibility. It is recommended to turn them on at night to make the car more visible, but not for driving on highways instead of the main lights.
Running lights are used by manufacturers to reduce energy consumption in the car. Structurally, DRLs differ noticeably from the “dimensions”. A row of LED lamps in the headlight units is just as bright as the dipped beam, but does not form a focused beam and reduces energy consumption. In other cases, high beam lamps act as DRLs, automatically switching to a softer operating mode. However, if there is no DRL, the rules require the low beam or fog lights to be turned on on all cars without exception.
Traffic police officers must ensure that vehicles are visible, but the fine for headlights is so low that such work inspires few people. All eyes are on more profitable offenses. For example, at one time the term “collective farm xenon” sounded like a punishment, as courts denied people’s rights for a period of six months to a year due to non-standard bulbs in headlights. And the traffic police regularly set up ambushes.
But after the decision of the Supreme Court in 2019 to reclassify “collective farms” to a fine of 500 rubles instead of the “hardship” article 12.5.3. According to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, inspectors immediately lost interest in the headlights and looked indifferently at the light shows on the roads. “Collective farmers” are almost legalized, although the rules still ban both “collective farm xenon” and “dimensions” rather than DRLs. It is not surprising that the number of accidents is increasing.
After a turbulent 2022, we saw a further increase in the number of road accidents by 3.9% in the six months of 2023 compared to the first half of last year. The number of traffic fatalities increased by 2.8%. The number of frontal collisions is increasing. The State Road Safety Inspectorate explains the increase in the number of accidents due to global factors, namely SVO, redistribution of traffic flows and tectonic shifts in the economy.
Although the head of the traffic police, Mikhail Chernikov, informs that the reason for the increase in the death rate is still dangerous overtaking in poor visibility and high traffic congestion. And who should ensure good visibility of transport? If someone says that the love of money of the traffic police only causes harm, do not believe it. Sometimes a briber saves more lives along the way than an ascetic in government.
There has been absolute chaos with headlights for the past three years. Some install ‘collective farm’ spotlights, while others save low beams during the day. The result is that you have to fight blindness at night and frantically peer at the horizon during the day to see if the faceless ‘Flying Dutchman’ will appear there.
It is no surprise that road safety is appalling. During the day you begin to overtake, and at the most unexpected moment a barely noticeable gray silhouette appears behind the shadows, frighteningly close. We have to dive back and wait for the next “window”. “Invisible” vehicles are especially dangerous at dusk, in fog and out of season, when dirt flies onto the windshield and further reduces vehicle visibility.
Many motorists, of course, turn on their headlights, indicating their conscious aversion to low beams, but weak lamps are not visible even from a distance of 50 meters, and a dirty body blends in with the gray road, creating emergency situations. .
If you ask your friends why they stopped turning on the low beams, many are perplexed, because they have “daytime running lights”, and point to the dim bulbs. It is especially strange to hear about ‘running lights’ on Nivas or Bukhankas. The same DRLs can be found on old Audi 80 “Bochka”, “Mercedes” 124 and other rarities 30 years old. And when you make it clear that these “dimensions” have nothing in common with “running lights”, many are genuinely indignant. After all, lights are lights, the car is running, so here are the DRLs. Or maybe everything really is legal?
Low beam lights became mandatory in 2005, when further changes were made to road rules to reduce frontal collisions on motorways. And in 2010, the rules were again adapted to new car standards. In section 19.5 of the Road Rules, a rule appeared stating that “during the day, the dipped beam or daytime running lights (DRLs) must be switched on on all moving vehicles to enable them to be identified.” And many saw this indulgence in DRLs as permission to drive without low beams. But regular ‘dimensions’ are not DRLs at all.
Sidelights in headlights have a second name: parking lights and are used to identify a vehicle on the side of the road in poor visibility. It is recommended to turn them on at night to make the car more visible, but not for driving on highways instead of the main lights.
Running lights are used by manufacturers to reduce energy consumption in the car. Structurally, DRLs differ noticeably from the “dimensions”. A row of LED lamps in the headlight units is just as bright as the dipped beam, but does not form a focused beam and reduces energy consumption. In other cases, high beam lamps act as DRLs, automatically switching to a softer operating mode. However, if there is no DRL, the rules require the low beam or fog lights to be turned on on all cars without exception.
Traffic police officers must ensure that vehicles are visible, but the fine for headlights is so low that such work inspires few people. All eyes are on more profitable offenses. For example, at one time the term “collective farm xenon” sounded like a punishment, as courts denied people’s rights for a period of six months to a year due to non-standard bulbs in headlights. And the traffic police regularly set up ambushes.
But after the decision of the Supreme Court in 2019 to reclassify “collective farms” to a fine of 500 rubles instead of the “hardship” article 12.5.3. According to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, inspectors immediately lost interest in the headlights and looked indifferently at the light shows on the roads. “Collective farmers” are almost legalized, although the rules still ban both “collective farm xenon” and “dimensions” rather than DRLs. It is not surprising that the number of accidents is increasing.
After a turbulent 2022, we saw a further increase in the number of road accidents by 3.9% in the six months of 2023 compared to the first half of last year. The number of traffic fatalities increased by 2.8%. The number of frontal collisions is increasing. The State Road Safety Inspectorate explains the increase in the number of accidents due to global factors, namely SVO, redistribution of traffic flows and tectonic shifts in the economy.
Although the head of the traffic police, Mikhail Chernikov, informs that the reason for the increase in the death rate is still dangerous overtaking in poor visibility and high traffic congestion. And who should ensure good visibility of transport? If someone says that the love of money of the traffic police only causes harm, do not believe it. Sometimes a briber saves more lives along the way than an ascetic in government.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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