Why Attract Attention?

So this morning around 6 on my way to work - still completedly dark - I thought, man, are both this guy´s rear lights off?! Man, that´s dangerous!

No, wasn´t the case!

I was on the left lane, hence faster, and saw in the rear mirror: Also the front lights are out.
That guy was driving without lights!!! Only illuminated by the surrounding cars and the few streetlamps!!!

Now... were all 4 lamps broken? Or was the cockpit dead, too??? He must have realized something, no???
Was an old Golf III, I guess.