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dcb · 07-21-2008, 10:31 AM

You might quantify it a little better than "minute droplets".

Let's say you have 75 watts worth of DRL, that is equivelent to 1/10 of a horsepower, plus it comes through your alternator so it is probably more like 1/5 hp to run the DRLs.
I think we need more efficient lighting (but not blue please). If you consider there are about 125 million cars on the roads in the US alone, that would be 25 million horsepower to run DRLs on all those cars!

They don't do so good a job preventing accidents with other cars but they do seem to help out bikers and pedestrians a bit (AFAIK)

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