Don’t be ridiculous 
It was suspended for 90 days. At the end of that time they gave me a list of BS I’d have to go through to get it back, and since I wasn’t ready at that time to quit drinking, I chose to quit driving. By the time I did actually quit drinking, I had discovered I rather liked not having the expense of gas and insurance, and walking/bicycling was actually getting me in pretty decent shape. Not to mention that my city had established a pretty decent public transit system by that time. But by the time I turned 40, I’d finally gotten tired of walking to work in the middle of winter (I’d been working mostly as a breakfast cook, which forced me to walk to work because the busses didn’t start running until 7AM), so I started working toward getting a car and my license back.
Nitpick. Strictly speaking, it’s 30 minutes after sunset. From the Wasingon Stare Drivers Guide
No such law exists.
My lights are on regardless of the time of day. My car has the option of either/or, with auto shutoff when the engine is killed. I’d rather be seen than not, especially with these narrow streets and obstructed vision at intersections (cars park right up to the stop signs). I’m low enough to the ground that they don’t blind anybody.
I always leave my car headlights on “auto” which I think means that they turn on whenever it’s even a little bit dark or grey. I should probably pay closer attention to whether or not they are actually on if it’s a bit of bad weather or near dusk/dawn.
My car is foggy day silver, so unless it’s bright sunshine and blue skies my headlights are on. Even then I feel like sometimes other drivers don’t see me.
My last car at least had DRL come on when I turned it on. One of my few objections to my new car is that it doesn’t have DRL. So I trained myself into a new habit pattern: ignition on, seat belt buckled, headlights on…then and only then does the car go in gear.
Rik has a legitimate bitch and I support it. I want to be able to see other cars on the road. And I want them to be able to see me.
I drive a small silver Corolla that seems to be in stealth mode to all the larger vehicles anyway, so my headlights are ALWAYS on. I figure I want to take every opportunity I can for other vehicles to see me.
Never mind the headlights; people don’t seem to realize that sometimes you need to see taillights, too, like when everyone is driving straight into the sun in the morning or afternoon.
Seeing as how everyone, including me, is in agreement with Mister Rik, I’m going to offer up a safety tip. If your windshield wipers are going, do not use your cruise control. They react badly to hydroplaning.
I know that stretch of highway. I cannot imagine why anyone would not put their lights on.
My headlights are set to go on when I start the car and go off when I turn off the engine. If I’m driving, they’re on.
OG not this one again.
The dumbest thing of all is those people who turn on their parking lights at dusk instead of their headlights. I guess because they only need a little illumination because spinal injuries are only a little severe when it’s only a little dark.
And while I’m ranting, stop fucking driving with your hazard flashers on. If you’re that hazardous, get the fuck off the fucking road and call a fucking tow truck, don’t drive on the interstate all “Ooh, I’ve got a problem, best stay away from me.”
Why? Everything reacts badly to hydroplaning. 
Daytime running lights are a damned fine idea, and I don’t know why you don’t adopt the same system in the US.
Hydroplaning is bad, of this there is no doubt. Driving with your cruise on in the rain is maybe not the greatest idea in the world. What I object to is the scare e-mail that circulates about this.
Anyway here is the scare e-mail:
The first two sentences are fine I have no objection to them. It’s the next three that have me going :smack: Here they are and we can talk about them
Everything you do in driving a car has to do with the friction between the tires and the road. Stopping, starting, accelerating, and turning all require friction between the tire and the road surface. hydroplaning is when a layer of water gets between the tire and the road surface reducing that friction to essentially zero. So if your tires are off the ground and you have no traction, would somebody explain how your car can accelerate to a high rate of speed? If I took your car and put it on a hoist at my dealership and lifted the tires off the ground, started the car and put it into gear, just how fast could I make the car go? Answer? zero MPH, there would be no traction between the tires and the ground, so nothing to make the car accelerate.
Correct but a mite dramatic
As I have said, when your tires aren’t on the ground, the car is not accelerating. The car did not take off like an airplane.
Here is what really happened:
So back when I was 18 or so, I was in an underground parking garage that had a very smooth concrete surface and had flooded to about 1" deep from rain. I goosed my parents Big Dodge V8 and broke the tires loose. My buddy was laughing his ass off and told me to stop so he could get a picture. I let him out and floored it. Engine revved up, tires broke loose, trans shifted and away we went at a walking pace. My buddy was walking next to the car talking to me as the speedo registered 120 MPH. The tires were spinning at 120MPH but since there was essentially no friction between the tires and the road, courtesy of the standing water, the car was going maybe 3 MPH.
the person that wrote this (and everyone that has re-published it) think that the speed of the tires = the speed of the car. In reduced traction conditions, this is not a true statement.
That is my objection to this piece of glurge.
It also ignores the safeties built into modern cruise controls.
Here is an excellent discussion of hydroplaning
Here is the standard (wrong) letter about this
I’ve never owned a vehicle with daytime running lights. I always put my lights on well before sunset and only after the sun is completely up as well as whenever it’s overcast, even if not raining. I absolutely can’t turn my lights on when it’s sunny out unless the vehicle has an idiot warning and until Friday I had never had this. Luckily for me, my wonderful stepfather gave me his old car and it dings annoyingly when I forget to turn the lights off so I can have them on all the time. Of course the car is also bright red and unlikely to disappear into the fog on a rainy day.
Rick, dude, I’m sorry. I wasn’t bringing up glurge, just offering some advice from my days living in the land of flash floods. Hitting a sudden localized storm at 50 mph can get all of the tires off the road and the car shimmies. In my experience, there was never any worries about being in god’s hands. It was just really unsetteling, so its something I do automatically now.
Kinda like how I aways have my lights on and why I have flags mounted on my bike and wear fringe when I’m riding. I want people to see me.
Same reason they don’t use metric or dollar coins. 
Get all four hydroplaning and things can get interesting. First time it happened to me car went from straight ahead to 90 degrees off the direction of travel in nothing flat. That was fun.
Anyway, don’t sweat it, no big deal.
FWIW, a lot of my issues regarding visibility are related to my 15 years of walking/bicycling. Dammit, I want drivers to see me and I want to see them!