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Originally Posted by Uncle Snake
For clarification, driving lights are white and fog lights are yellow. Beam pattern not with standing. As yellow reflects less off the fog than white offering better visibility in foggy conditions and also help in white out snow conditions. Make sure you buy what you need, not what people tell you that you want. Just my opinion.....
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I am 100% in agreement with your post. When i lived in New England (worked off 93 on the south shore and in Framingham), true fog lights (yellow) were invaluable (especially in the snow). Now I'm in the desert (no fog - or not enough to worry about). I, like probably many others, use the 'fog lights' as driving lights / cornering lights. The added peripheral illumination they provide can be invaluable (when a kid dressed in dark clothes darts across a 6 lane street on his bicycle on a dark and rainy night).
Back in the White Mountains or Green Mountains i'd prefer yellow over white anyday, but here in a desert city the color is not as important to me as is the peripheral illumination, and not blinding other drivers.
Referencing the point made about reflectors, I was under the impression the our headlights are projectors and the foglights are reflectors. Thank you Toyota for giving us both
Many members have had success upgrading the headlights with LED (though HIDs are even better), and upgrading the foglights with XD leds. In my opinion, the most important factor would be to not decrease vision, and the second most important factor would be to not bling other drivers. (Though if you drive around Phoenix at night, the second most important factor is often not observed).
That said it has not been long enough to grade the headlights though the few times i've used them, they seemed better than stock and no flashes yet. Fog lights will take a while till i can put some miles on them at night. It appears the LED technology has come a long way in a fairly short period of time. From the 'all in one' headlight bulb i used to the newer 4 sided led fog light, these are making bulb swaps easier and safer.
Interesting point you've got about the lights, makes me wonder why they are not called driving lights or cornering lights and I'd guess the car company's lawyers have something to do with that.