I recall a similiar discussion here:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...html#post46414
After looking into it I found some data that seemed to indicate that DRLs were
MORE hazardous for pedestrians. That could easily be the result of putting noise makers on every car, but we need some way of testing it, and traditionally you have to wait until enough "stuff happens" before assessing it, unless you live in a utopia where everyone always pay perfect attention and never cross lines when they are not supposed to
DRLs also cost hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline per year in the US too, so that might be a double whammy.