Turn On Your Lights

For cripes sake, people.  When it’s foggy and you can’t see more than a hundred yards, TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS! 

Morons… 

1. Word.  Maybe it’s a combination of stupid and selfish, though.  Turning on one’s own lights doesn’t necessarily increase visibility in the fog—but it helps others see you.  Therefore, everyone else turn their lights on, me I’ll keep mine off.  Or something.

   Posted by scott on March 11, 2010 at 1003 hrs




2. Yeah, Scott, that may be what people tell themselves, but they seem to forget that if I cannot see them, I cannot avoid them. Driving in fog without lights should be a six point violation and an automatic 100% at fault in any crash.

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3. Totally.

   When I drove the 95 Pathfinder I had bona fide fog lights.  That was a treat.

   Posted by scott on March 11, 2010 at 1019 hrs




4. I agree…but SHHHHH!! Not so loud…the Legislature might hear you. 

   Oops…too late:

   http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-382.pdf

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1023 hrs




5. The lights on my car can’t be turned off.  All cars should be built that way.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1026 hrs




6. Yes, heaven forfend that the people’s representatives enact a law that most of us seem to agree with.

   Posted by scott on March 11, 2010 at 1027 hrs




7. Yes, turn on your damn lights in the fog.

   I hate automatic headlights.  They are simply a distraction for me most of the time.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1029 hrs




8. I don’t mean to be obtuse, but how are automatic headlights a distraction? You don’t have to bother turning them on or off. During the day, you can’t tell if they’re on or not. At night, you’d presumably have them on anyway, but now you don’t have to bother physically turning them on.

   I freely admit to occasionally being a little slow on the uptake, but a distraction?

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9. I love the automatic lights on my vehicles - don’t have to worry about them being on or off at the right time, don’t have to worry about running the battery down by leaving them “on”.

   I’ve noticed that about 40% of drivers do not turn their lights on during foggy daytime conditions.  I live outside city limits, nothing more thrilling than pulling out from a stopsign and holding your breath that there isn’t someone coming 45-50 without their headlights on.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1344 hrs




10. It’s not my own lights, apc, it’s other people’s lights.  Cars in daylight with their headlights on are a distraction for me.  Additionally, it’s more diffcult to judge their speed and distance.

    The other thing I hate about automatic lights is that you can’t warn other drivers by flipping your lights on and off.    And, no, I don’t mean speed traps.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1416 hrs




11. You can warn other drivers by using the “Flash-to-Pass” feature - at least on my 1999 GMC - not sure about the spouse’s 2005 Buick which also has automatic headlights.  If in autoheadlight mode, you just pull back on the dimmer stick, short of a hard click. If you hold the stick in that position, the lights stay on.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1551 hrs




12. OK, fair enough, BVBB. I didn’t even think about from that perspective.

    See, I told you I could be a little dense at times.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1732 hrs




13. Last nights tally: Car into Tractor Trailer, Car vs Car, head on… both in the middle of the road, and Car vs Parked Van. All in the fog… and all driving too fast for condition… also very nearly car into parked Fire Engine with lights flashing and firefighters all around it.

    Thick fog forecasted for tonight again… hopefully we’ll do a bit better the second time.

    For crying out loud folks… Drive SLOWER when you can only see 100 feet ahead of you. If you can’t stop in time, then you were driving too fast.

    And Yes… TURN ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS!

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 11, 2010 at 1907 hrs




14. The Family Fire Guy -

    Good luck to you on any runs in such weather.

    I’m guessing that the person who almost hit the firetruck might have done that on a sunny day.

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15. I think George Carlin said it best.  Re-design cars so the dashboard and steering wheel have sharp steel spikes pointing at the driver.  That will make drivers safer.

    Off topic:  I can’t understand why anybody today can’t think enough to take their car out of gear or kill the ignition when their car accelerates on it’s own.  (Every car built to USA restrictions has the capability to turn off without locking the steering and can be taken out of gear without placing it in park or reverse.)  Every damn one.

    My take;  If you think first, you can’t be a part of the multi-billion dollar class action suit against the evil corporation that designed and built the death trap you wouldn’t live without even if you believed it was the main cause of the destruction of the fragile planet you somehow ended up on.

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16. Drove in the parking lot this morning at work and somebody asks me hey you have a death wish, turn your headlights on in this fog.
    What are you talking about I have auto headlights ? started the beast up again and sure enough they come on in the manual position but not when in the auto position.
    Thinking the fog was not as thick today as yesterday to trip them on?
    Thats it for this piece of junk, 210,000 miles of trouble free reliability and now everything falls apart, damm American made GMC , next it will be the wiper blades.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 12, 2010 at 0920 hrs