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Have you ever flipped on your high beams while driving through snow or fog, you may have noticed how difficult it gets to see. The particles act like small mirrors that then refract the light and send it through the other particles in the air. Not only does this make it difficult for you to see, but other drivers too.
Yellow fog lights are specially made to help drivers navigate the road carefully in foggy conditions. Yellow lights are the best among fog light colors because they hit your retina in a way that enables you to focus on the road. Staring constantly at white light can frustrate the eye, and darker colors like blue and green have limited wavelength.
Here is the complete guide for all your doubts regarding the fog lights.
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In California, we have Interstate 5, it runs from the Baja Mexico Border, (you likely have heard about Tijuana Mexico)

Interstate 5 goes all the way through California, Oregon & Washington State
It pretty much follows the Coast, but is more inland where we get a load of Fog.
Some areas, there are no side roads or any kind of access roads for maybe 40 or 50 miles apart.

During a night fog, American vehicles drive maybe 40 MPH
The Japanese Sports cars, will drive in dense fog at 70 + MPH, the lights on those cars are not yellow, they run a Blue/White Fog Light

I wait at a fuel stop until a couple foreign cars fly by & i pull out in back of them, yellow fogs on & i turn on my Cargo light, so others can keep their distance & still see me, the foreign cars just pass me.

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If the yellow lights are so good, why haven’t the manufactures add them or made them a option for more $$$. We know they love more $$$.

Why hasn’t the NHSTA made them mandatory?

I tried them in the 90’s and it seems like snake oil.
 

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Being the "better" choice isn't always enough. Betamax had a much better picture quality than VHS did, but VHS was the format that was pushed. (Some won't get this reference and I don't care if this dates me)
 
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Being the "better" choice isn't always enough. Betamax had a much better picture quality than VHS did, but VHS was the format that was pushed. (Some won't get this reference and I don't care if this dates me)
We had both Beta and VHS lol ... the good ole' days of going to the local video rentals lol..
 

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Way back in the " old days" all my fog lights where yellow, and iof you ordered on a new car , that is what you got.
The current fog lights we have are great for lighting up the ditches at night to look for deer that want to play chicken , stupid animals.
 

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the reason being most modern vehicles don't have yellow fog lights is because they don't actually have "fog" lights at all, they are a driving light, white in color to illuminate the road more at night not in fog.
yellow light does work better to illuminate in fog and snow and even rain, but if you want the very best vision possible, nothing tops a green light. The human eye can focus on green much easier in dark (think night vision goggles), and in bad weather, such as rain, fog, or snow.
 

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New to me 2009 Laramie. Turn on the fog lights, they are white. Push the headlight button, they turn yellow. I don't know if that's a factory set up, or not. Best of both worlds.
 

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the reason being most modern vehicles don't have yellow fog lights is because they don't actually have "fog" lights at all, they are a driving light, white in color to illuminate the road more at night not in fog.
yellow light does work better to illuminate in fog and snow and even rain, but if you want the very best vision possible, nothing tops a green light. The human eye can focus on green much easier in dark (think night vision goggles), and in bad weather, such as rain, fog, or snow.

You nailed it. That’s 100% correct :waytogo:

Which is why I have both Fog and Driving lights
 

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Most States have a motor vehicle law that reads that you can only have 4 White Lights facing Forward

6 white lights gets a ticket

I don't recall if i have used the Ram's Fogs

The 2013 & newer Ram 1500s have worthless vertical fog lights

where the 2009 to 2012 Dodge Rams had Horizontal Fogs & you could see into the ditch on the side of the road

The HD Rams Fogs are still horizontal

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New to me 2009 Laramie. Turn on the fog lights, they are white. Push the headlight button, they turn yellow. I don't know if that's a factory set up, or not. Best of both worlds.

I have these on my truck. Mine are LED. They are a type of a "switch back" bulb.
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Most States have a motor vehicle law that reads that you can only have 4 White Lights facing Forward

6 white lights gets a ticket

I don't recall if i have used the Ram's Fogs

The 2013 & newer Ram 1500s have worthless vertical fog lights

where the 2009 to 2012 Dodge Rams had Horizontal Fogs & you could see into the ditch on the side of the road

The HD Rams Fogs are still horizontal

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The current Rams don't have a vertical fog light they have a vertical driving light. Like most modern vehicles. But I assure you my 29 classic with the vertical light lights up the ditch and sides of the road extremely well with an LED bulb in there. Definitely lights it up better than the horizontal fog lights found on the earlier models when driving beside me on the highway
 

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Just get the best of both worlds. I have the White/Yellow bulbs from SuperbrightLEDs.com. Turn them on they are white. Turn them off and back on they are yellow.
 

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The current Rams don't have a vertical fog light they have a vertical driving light. Like most modern vehicles. But I assure you my 29 classic with the vertical light lights up the ditch and sides of the road extremely well with an LED bulb in there. Definitely lights it up better than the horizontal fog lights found on the earlier models when driving beside me on the highway
Put LEDs in the factory vertical "fog" lights do work good for normal conditions driving but they're totally useless when dealing with fog and snow. That's why I'm glad I changed to the DiodeDynamics SS3 Pro level SAE Fog lights. They not only cast better side lighting than the factory fog w/LEDs but the beam pattern is kept low(the beam stays pretty much below the height of the housing). I've drove in near white out conditions and the DD SS3 performed great.
 
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The fog lights on my truck are super bright lol ... I adjusted them so that they actually light up more forward without blinding people and it gives me better lighting with the lasfit leds I put in them ....
 

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Most States have a motor vehicle law that reads that you can only have 4 White Lights facing Forward

6 white lights gets a ticket

I don't recall if i have used the Ram's Fogs

The 2013 & newer Ram 1500s have worthless vertical fog lights

where the 2009 to 2012 Dodge Rams had Horizontal Fogs & you could see into the ditch on the side of the road

The HD Rams Fogs are still horizontal

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4 ???!!! Crap…… I’ve got (16) facing forward (1/2 amber, 1/2 white)….. and that’s not even counting the chicken lights :waytogo:
 

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Put LEDs in the factory vertical "fog" lights do work good for normal conditions driving but they're totally useless when dealing with fog and snow. That's why I'm glad I changed to the DiodeDynamics SS3 Pro level SAE Fog lights. They not only cast better side lighting than the factory fog w/LEDs but the beam pattern is kept low(the beam stays pretty much below the height of the housing). I've drove in near white out conditions and the DD SS3 performed great.
I have had horrible luck with DD products. I will not support them anymore after failed warranty claim on my shall light bar. So I can't comment on your fogs. But the stick ram vertical driving lights with a good set of properly indexed LEDs work great in for and especially snow. I drive the pitch black highways of Northern Ontario year round. Ditches light up great, easily pick up moose before the dart out on the road. We get some of the worst snow storms in the country up here with almost no visibility yet mine lights up the lower portion of the road extremely well cutoff line is just a couple inches below the more focused lower headlight beam area at 25ft. Once my projector headlights are finished and installed, this should be phenomenal lighting
 
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