OT Idiot lights-out drivers

A lady in a mini-van looked straight at a motor cyclist coming towards her in the opposite lane and still turned left in front of him. The guy on the motor cycle ended up laying the motor cycle down on it's side and he got injured. She did stop at that point and took responsibility for her actions.

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Muggles
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I smell bullshit. Just like global warming.

Look at this part of what you wrote below:

These studies concluded that two years after enactment of the law, DRLs = reduced daytime multiple-vehicle crashes by 6 to 7 percent, and reduced motor-vehicle-to=

-pedalcyclist crashes by

4 percent. However, the second study also showed that DRLs significantly= increased motor vehicle-to-pedestrian crashes by 16 percent.

Which is what I was saying, light up one thing and you see the other les= s. What next? DRLs compulsory on pedestrians?

The simple fact remains that the human eye doesn't just see direct light= , it sees REFLECTED light, in fact that's what it's designed to see. Al= l objects reflect light during daylight hours. Adding light sources on t= hem is beyond stupid.

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What does a Polish woman do after she sucks a c*ck? Spits out the feathers.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

That would be me. I use sidelights in a streetlit area at night. And do you know what? Never been pulled over for it. Dipped lights are for you to see. You do not need a bright light to see the light. You use bright lights to illuminate other objects.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Why are you equating brightness with time?

Reply to
Mr Macaw

I've got eyes. If you don't, get someone else to drive for you.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Speak for yourself. How do you manage when you go out for a walk, do you need to use a torch?

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Mr Macaw

I wonder how much good they were going 110 mph? I'd be more worried about traction and hydroplaning! ack!

Reply to
Muggles

I guess you don't drive with your lights on all the time then?

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Says the person who cannot see an object which doesn't have bulbs all over it.

I'm a photographer, I know all about contrast and apertures, so shut up until you have a clue please.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Says the person using mobile phone speak.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

Says the person who doesn't know the difference between her name and her email address.

Reply to
Mr Macaw

That would be because I can see them without lights all over them, just like I can see other cars without lights all over them.

Again, why do you want the front of cars lit up but not the back?

Reply to
Mr Macaw

You are talking about "a streetlit area." I was taking about UNlit areas.

Perce

Reply to
Percival P. Cassidy

If a bulb is out, the flashing rate changes telling driver to check them.

Reply to
Tony Hwang

Per Mr Macaw:

Balance of Power: workers are not standing up for themselves, so the additional profits float up to the top.

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(PeteCresswell)

That is why when you pick up the new car, you have to spend some time with delivery specialist(usually young kids) asking any questions about this new gadgets. Not everything is in the manual.

Reply to
Tony Hwang

Per Ed Pawlowski:

In my experience, the German standard for a similar job is much higher.

But this is a subjective judgment.

Last time I priced them (a loooooong time ago) a pair of Nikes that cost, say, $50 USD were more like $150 in Germany.... and people there drive much, much smaller automobiles.....

OTOH, that has to be weighed against 6 weeks of vacation, overtime pay for working overtime, retirement at full pay, medical coverage, vastly-greater literacy, and so-forth.

"You pays your money and you takes your choice".

I tell my German relatives that I'd emigrate to Germany in a heartbeat except for one problem: Too Many Germans..... i.e. It's a foreign culture and German is a infamously-difficult language to learn.

When we would walk around in towns of any size (Mainz, for instance) it was obvious when we walked into a neighborhood populated mainly by non-Germans: dog poop on the sidewalks, trash, graffiti, dirt in general....

When I was taking Latin in high school, we had to read Caesar's Gallic Wars. I remember one part where somebody was talking about the English and the Germans.

The gist was something to the effect of "Well, the English paint themselves blue and throw spears at us; but we're going to civilize them. The Germans, on the other hand, are far more civilized and developed; but we are never going to get on with them because they're just so *different*".

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(PeteCresswell)

What's in the manual is a legal disclaimer. I'd be willing to bet that anyone at the dealer would be incapable of explaining the *real* impact of this disclosure: namely, that someone could subpoena the logs from your vehicle to determine if you were at fault in an accident, to discover who you have talked with (a la Patriot Act)

*through* the vehicle's comms, etc.

Sort of like google claiming that their tracking of your searches is to enable them to "provide a better search experience" (where "better" means "more profitable for its advertisers"!)

Reply to
Don Y

Europe has a different idea of the role of gummit in society. The US believes society exists so folks can exploit one and other; the europeans seem to think it exists so folks can *help* one and other.

Huge difference.

Nonsense! You just fill your mouth with olive-sized jagged stones and try to pronounce "Petter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers"

*without* letting any of them fall out of your mouth! ;-)

Germans, IME, tend to be highly conformist. But, that's from my observations of "german immigrants" and first descendants thereof.

Reply to
Don Y

If you don't have time to stop or take evasive action you can hit it. You knew that but just wanted to show off.

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Ed Pawlowski

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