Why annoy other drivers during daylight hours. If they cannot see an object as large and unique shaped as a GMC motor home coming towards them, then one has to question why they are still in possession of a drivers license.
I personally hate DRLs. But, it is America after all. Spend your money how it pleases you.
Jim Hupy

You don't HAVE to replace the sockets. Just cut and resplice the socket wires to correct the wiring error. Use crimp type butt splices and you won't even shorten the reach of the existing wires.Quote:

From: Gmclist on behalf of Terry
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 12:58
To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] LED DRL Exterior wiring

So I guess those have a protected automatic inverter circuit built into them? Great! That will be a big help for some of the reverse wired fixtures in the GMC and perhaps some boats too. So now I can use LEDs to replace the floor lighting in the GMC without replacing the sockets. Didn't see any LED strips yet, but they might be in there somewhere. Thanks JR!
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Terry Kelpien
ASE Master Technician
73 Glacier 260
Smithfield, Va.

Whenever I'm riding my bike, I ASSUME the drivers entering the roadway do not see me, and prepare for them to pull out right in front of me AFTER my safe reaction space is already used up. Those pre-intersection thoughts have saved me several times even though my headlight and front turn signal lights were on. Unfortunately, twice in the past few months I have heard the tires squeal BEHIND me as inattentive (or blind) drivers have slid to a stop behind me when I was already stopped for traffic, and one actually (fortunately) saw me in the last 25 feet and ran off the road to the right to avoid crushing me in between her car and the one I was stopped behind. She was putting her cell phone down as I looked over at her. The DRLs on her car were not helping either of us at that point, but they were on. A collision warning system in her car might have snapped her back to the task at hand at that time, much like the teacher slapping the yardstick on the desk when half the class was on the verge of falling asleep. Autonomous braking would probably have seen the vehicle in front of me, but I don't know if it would have detected me on the motorcycle 12-15 feet behind it. Might still have gotten crushed.

I believe the autonomous braking and lane-drifting systems that are being introduced now are going to lure our younger drivers into a false sense of robotic control of the vehicle that THEY are supposed to be controlling. Even the Toyota commercial shows the girl lost in the reverie of singing a song and only the lane-alert system snaps her back to reality and saves the oncoming vehicle. Other commercials seem to give a pass on inattentive driving, showing how the vehicle will save them when they stop DRIVING a moving vehicle. Autopilot in the air with long range radar is OK until you get within range of the airport, where there is much more activity, which is also more tightly controlled than transportation methods on the planet's surface. There is just too much independent activity down here on the ground for an automatic system to compensate for 100% of the time. If they manage to stop you from 60mph in time for an obstacle in the roadway, what about the vehicle behind you? 60mph is 88 feet per second, and very few, if any, can stop that quickly. That's why we have to have drivers that can process the information and change lanes or take to the weeds if necessary. Can't do that if your not paying attention.

DRLs are not going to help any of this and actually constitute another distraction and take away from the alert status of the flashing lights of emergency vehicles, making them harder to distinguish from the sea of moving lights.

On the other hand, maybe we should require flashing beacons and audible alerts on ALL moving vehicles, like the earliest regulations for motorized vehicles on city streets over a hundred years ago I am personally guilty of this by having the rub rail on the GMC lighted by LEDs when the parking lights are on, and they flash opposite the turn signals when they are flashing and the parking lights are also on, depending on whether I switch the ground for them to the marker lights or a constant ground. Either way, they are currently only on when the parking lights are on.