Definitely the work of Satan - they're not up there along with the people who use full beam and foglights in the day and no lights in fog or at dusk, but they're scummy.

I never use mine on my Subaru - they are dim, they stay on when the key is removed, thus draining the battery, and they serve no purpose. In fact I reckon that sometimes lights increase my invisibility factor!

Training is the way forwards - as mentioned a wee bit back in this thread, if a car is getting bigger, it is moving closer (or I guess it could be getting bigger, but that is awfully unlikely, so we'll go with Occam on this one) so deal with it.

Volvos and Saabs may well have a good reason for running lights in countries well up near the Arctic circle, but they are just a pain in the neck at all other times.