I like em... good for $35 off my insurance premium each year. I run with the headlights on over the DRL in order to have my running lights at the same time. As a veteran motorcyclist I know being seen is critical to safety. If you drive aggressively it's even more important that people know you're there when you weren't there a second ago when they last looked over their shoulder... "where did HE come from?" is no good.
More facts....
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Insurance Discounts for Daytime Lights
By BETSY WADE
Published: April 14, 1996
New York State now requires that auto insurance companies reduce their premiums by 2.5 to 3 percent for residents who own cars with factory-installed daytime running lights, which have been shown to reduce head-on and side-impact collisions.
Daytime running lights -- headlights activated by the ignition, at a lower intensity than the night beam, and stay on -- are standard on many 1995 and '96 models. Chuck Hurley, senior vice president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, says 21.3 percent of the 1996 models registered in the United States have the running lights, up from 5.2 percent of '95 models.
Connecticut has not taken a similar action, nor has New Jersey, although the New Jersey Insurance Department said that so far two insurance companies had voluntarily given their policyholders a 5 percent reduction in the collision premium for cars with daytime running lights.
All three states require that headlights be on while windshield wipers are running, but Canada went a step further, making daytime running lights mandatory with the 1990 model year. Avis Rent a Car conducted a test in eight northern cities in the United States in 1993, keeping records on 1,500 cars equipped with the lights, plus 1,500 control cars. The results showed that accidents involving the unequipped cars cost 69 percent more to repair said Demetria Mudar, an Avis spokeswoman. Accidents involving damage greater than $15,000 involved only the unequipped cars, she said. Two-thirds of the Avis fleet is equipped with daytime running lights. BETSY WADE
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