It is my opinion that headlights should be on any time the vehicle is in gear. Headlights should be wired to the gear shift.
There always have been idiots who refuse to turn lights on during the time of poor visibility, but recently I have seen a great increase in their numbers.
Recently, frequently after dark.
A few miles from here, on a highway I travel frequently, an idiot in a Porsche traveling after dark at high speed hit a pickup and died in the resulting crash. Fortunately the pickup driver was OK.
The pickup driver was entering the highway and could not see the Porsche.
Some people are so stupid they can not understand that lights on a vehicle have two purposes of equal value: To see and to be seen.
lights on a vehicle have two purposes of equal value: To see and to be seen.
Most new cars now have always on running lights in front. Even 30 years ago some car manufacturers like Volvo anticipated the importance of lights in certain situations, they had a fog control you could switch on that made your rear lights very bright to help avoid cars running up into you.