[CanAmSteve]

Interesting post and comments. I find it amusing how some have their pet hates among mandated safety features - they pick and choose which ones they approve, but seat belts are crap, split-diagonal brake systems unnecessary, ABS doesn't work, collapsible steering columns are for sissies, airbags kill, etc. Always about them, too - never about the safety of others. The OP wants to be less visible so he disables the DRLs. He basically admits they work (make a car more visible) but one does wonder what sort of "law enforcement" (which could be a freelance bounty hunter or just Walter Mitty playing cop) drives a Ridgeline? For work? Now that would be stealth!

Canada brought in DRLs in 1992. No changes were required to car alternators or anything else, that's just someone's imagination. They all had lights already, remember? Some drove with them on all night! Amazing, no? Such BS. And now with LEDs, totally insignificant. The thing about DRLs is you want the other car to have them. The one who was too numb to turn his lights on in the rain, and that you are about to pull out right in front of. Turns out it is about you - sort of

 

[CanAmSteve]

I went to a driver improvement class to erase a ticket years ago, and one of the smart things I learned is to turn your headlights on when the sun is behind you. Some people will pass even when they are blinded by a low sun. Headlights make you more visible and you might avoid a head-on collision. It’s nice to have them on automatically all the time. I don’t have to remember anything.

Yup - and as I point out to the (very few) who find them irritating - they also help protect you from drivers not "bright" enough to know when (such as driving out of the sun) they should have turned their lights on