After more than 100 years of development, the automotive industry has become more and more developed, and in today's Internet era, people have more ways to obtain automotive knowledge, and the automotive market has become more transparent. Many car enthusiasts have found that car companies are increasingly fond of reducing the allocation, and fog lights are the first configuration to be reduced.
In the past, most cars were equipped with fog lights, which can improve light penetration when driving on foggy days, bringing better visibility. Now many car companies have canceled the fog lights, is it purely to reduce costs or has other intentions? Sometimes it's better to have a simple match.
First of all, let's understand the structure of the fog lamp, the structure of the fog lamp is very complex, composed of components such as masks, mirrors, semi-transparent films and adjustment screws. Fog lights are installed in front of and behind the car, and turning on fog lights when driving in rain and fog can improve the visibility of the driver.
According to the national standard regulations, all cars must be equipped with rear fog lights, but it is not mandatory to install front fog lights. Now more and more car companies cancel fog lights, the first reason is that fog lights and daytime running lights are combined into one.
The rear fog lights cannot be canceled, and car companies can only use their hands and feet on the front fog lights. In order to make the shape of the car look more beautiful, many car companies have canceled the fog lights in front of them and integrated the fog lights with the daytime running lights. The improved daytime running lights have stronger penetration and can bring the same effect as fog lights when driving in rainy and foggy days.
Second, reduce costs.
It is true that some car companies cancel fog lights in order to reduce costs, although the design of fog lights is not complicated, but there are more parts used, and the cost is not cheap. Since the relevant regulations require that cars cannot cancel the rear fog lights, the car companies can only do their hands on the front fog lights to cancel the front fog lights.
Don't underestimate the manufacturing cost of fog lights, a total of two fog lights are installed in front of the vehicle, if the two fog lights are canceled, the car company will save tens of millions of manufacturing costs after mass production.
Third, for aesthetic purposes.
Young people's aesthetic vision is more peculiar, like angular, sporty cars. When the car company built the car, it combined the preferences of young people and redesigned the front part of the car. The designer believed that adding two fog lights under the daytime running lights would affect the aesthetic harmony of the front face, so the fog lights were eliminated.
You can observe that the top supercar almost does not have a separate fog light, and the parallel fog lights under the daytime running lights look very dull, and this design drags mud with water. Now the new car is more and more sporty, the addition of fog lights will make the vehicle look unseasonable, some young people instead like the car without fog lights.
Fourth, it is not practical.
Except for rainy and foggy days, fog lights are basically useless. The lighting effect of the fog lamp is not as wide as the headlights, and the lighting angle cannot be adjusted. Most of the current daytime running lights use high-brightness LED bulbs, and the penetration is also very strong when driving on rainy and foggy days, and the fog lights that are not useful can only be canceled.
Editor's Comments:
Now more and more car companies cancel fog lights, not all to save costs and reduce allocation. With the continuous development of car manufacturing technology, LED daytime running lights have been able to replace the effect of fog lights to a certain extent, so the traditional fog lights will be slowly eliminated.
High-end luxury cars use more advanced laser headlights, which integrate fog lights into the headlight combination, and there is no need for car companies to install fog lights.
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