Andrew Shadow
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DRL have been required on cars in Canada since the late eighties. On every vehicle that I have owned since that time, that did not have automatic lights, the instrument lights did not come on with the DRL's only. This is intentional so that you know that your head lights are not on full power. I don't know if the majority of cars have the same set up or not but a lot must have as none of my cars were special. I never understood how people could drive around at night with only their DRL's on and not know it because they would be looking at a completely dark instrument panel. Many cars now have automatic lights that take care of themselves- solves the problem.