After having day hiked over a 1,000 miles on the Buckeye Trail and been a maintainer on 14 of it's sections, I can tell you that at some point, there is going to be fog. In the warm months, it usually occurs in the morning hours when the temperature reaches the dew point. But I've been a higher mileage per day hiker. And waiting for it to pass at 11am wastes 5 hours of hiking time.
One of the benefits of having an older motorhome is that it has old fashioned chrome bumpers. That's going to make it extremely easy to drill holes and mount fog lights. Now if I ever have to drive a gravel township road in the forest at night to reach a destination, right now, the overhead sleeping area in my Class C (Ford Econoline cutaway) is in disrepair due to water damage. It will have to be rebuilt and at some point, by stripping the wood and wall paper off of the sides and ceiling. When that happens, I'll have ample opportunity to mount auxiliary lights.
With enough fabrication, an ordinary car might be able to install these by using removable roof rack bars with mounting straps and pieces that hook to a lip within a vehicle's door shielding. I suppose that a set of auxiliary lights could be rigged to those bars by some means of fabrication. And that the electrical wires with a switch could just be shut inside the door and connected to a cigarette lighter power port.
Different states have different laws about auxiliary lighting. In some, you can have them mounted on conventional roads as long as they're never on. In other states, they have to be covered, or they can't be mounted at all.
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