Driving lights are forward lighting devices designed to supplement the high beam of a standard headlight system. They illuminate the road over a long distance and/or a wide area to improve visibility of the road ahead. By providing illumination over areas that are beyond the reach of high beam headlights, high beam auxiliary lights could thus offer an enhanced level of safety never achieved with the standard headlight system alone. The extended range of illumination makes it easy for vehicle drivers to identify hazards long before they would be seen with high beams only and execute evasive action in a sufficient time.
The ability to provide illumination forward of the vehicle that enhance the visibility of distant and surrounding objects makes driving lights especially useful at higher cruising speeds or in an off-road environment. Driving lights are installed on the front of the vehicle at a mounting height of not less than 12 inches nor more than 42 inches above the road surface to provide extra high beam illumination. They are typically mounted above the vehicle’s front bumper or in its grill. Aside from just being used at night to illuminate an area further and wider than the headlights are capable of, driving lights may also work as daytime running lights to improve the forward conspicuity of a vehicle to other road users in the daytime.
at the Open Lighting Product Directory (OLPD)
