Driving with no headlights on at night

ronbyrne2005

In my experience women tend to be more guilty by a significant degree of forgetting to turn their headlights on and driving around in dark. While out walking earlier I tried to indicate to a young lady that her headlights were'nt on by pointing to her headlights as she drove by. She didnt notice me and kept bombing up the busy Dublin road.
So people, in your experience, who are more likely to do this?

Biggins

If there had been an option, I would have option clicked on the drunks, the people on their phones, the drug fuelled dopes, the lazy.
Picking on people as just a gender, no, won't blame either side and thus I refuse to vote.

brianthebard

Personally I blame all driving related problems on the old and the dumb. There's a large crossover.

tony1kenobi

Stevie Wonder.

Wertz

Whatever about forgetting their lights, it's the silly c*nts that have their sides and fogs on and driving around urban areas that I reserve my hatred for...anyone can forget to click on their main/dips, especially at twilight, but these f*cking morons seem to think that all they need is the sides and fogs.
It's not gender dependent although anyone I noticed doing it in town this evening were women, mainly in mid size hatches (Golfs, A3s, Civics)...one nearly cleaned me out of it pulling out of a parallel parking space on the other side of the road into oncoming traffic (me).

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Drivers

tallaghtoutlaws

I would have said equal I saw two cars tonight both headlights off. One young girl and the other id say a man late 30's early 40's. When I flashed the girl with my headlights she must have coped it as they came on but the dude was oblivious probably asking himself why that clown was flashing him

Should be an option for equally as bad.

Dudess

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

In my experience women tend to be more guilty by a significant degree of forgetting to turn their headlights on and driving around in dark. While out walking earlier I tried to indicate to a young lady that her headlights were'nt on by pointing to her headlights as she drove by. She didnt notice me and kept bombing up the busy Dublin road.

Is your "experience" of it that one incident?

Where's the "careless people" poll option?

galwayrush

People with MO registered cars and tractors.:rolleyes:

seanybiker

Biggins wrote: »

If there had been an option, I would have option clicked on the drunks, the people on their phones, the drug fuelled dopes, the lazy.
Picking on people as just a gender, no, won't blame either side and thus I refuse to vote.

+1 on that.


Obviously the men are gonna say women and vice versa.
Stupidity isnt a gender based problem.

stovelid

Have done it once or twice when leaving shops at night. Sometimes you don't notice because of the streetlights. My excuse anyway.

brianthebard

I saw a red toyota van skid into the arse of a sam hire pick up tonight. Twas kind of funny, luckily they were taking a bend quite slowly when it happened and afaik the sam hire was empty. hit and run though.

Kiera

Yes women are crap drivers. Ban them all!!:rolleyes:

connundrum

I would have thought that driving around with headlights on wasn't to be advised? Driving with normal lights ftw, headlights when no one else is around.. thats what I was taught anyways.

Edit - or do folks now call headlights 'high beams'? Bleedin Americanisms.

seanybiker

There is no off for the lights on my bike so Im never gonna get caught for no lights. Its really handy.

Mossy Monk

I have seen plenty of both sexes over the years drive with no headlights.

4zn76tysfajdxp

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

In my experience women tend to be more guilty by a significant degree of forgetting to turn their headlights on and driving around in dark.

How the hell would you be able to tell the gender of a driver in another car travelling at upwards of 40mph in the opposite direction in the dark? I smell rabble-rousing shenanigans.

Victor

Jocelyn Muscular Wharf wrote: »

How the hell would you be able to tell the gender of a driver in another car travelling at upwards of 40mph in the opposite direction in the dark? I smell rabble-rousing shenanigans.

I've never made 40mph on foot.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Victor wrote: »

I've never made 40mph on foot.

Maybe you need new shoes?

tobytobe

It's the morons driving around with fogs lamps on all the time that really drive me mental. They seem to have no concept at all that it's actually a dangerous thing to do. I think some of them stupidly think that just because they might be on a particularly dark road it entitles them to blind all and sundry with their fogs lamps.

Quazzie

tobytobe wrote: »

It's the morons driving around with fogs lamps on all the time that really drive me mental. They seem to have no concept at all that it's actually a dangerous thing to do. I think some of them stupidly think that just because they might be on a particularly dark road it entitles them to blind all and sundry with their fogs lamps.

I always drive with fog lights. I'm a much worse driver when I can't see where I'm going. Does partial blindness make your driving better?

stovelid

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Does partial blindness make your driving better?

Being partially blinded by some dimwit with their fog lights on for no reason certainly makes my driving worse.

ronbyrne2005

Dudess wrote: »

Is your "experience" of it that one incident?

Where's the "careless people" poll option?

No dozens and dozens of incidents and women outnumber men in my experiences by 3-1. This is a poll of peoples experiences, anecdotal evidence, not scientific or anything so hold your horses Dude.

cormie

connundrum wrote: »

I would have thought that driving around with headlights on wasn't to be advised? Driving with normal lights ftw, headlights when no one else is around.. thats what I was taught anyways.

Edit - or do folks now call headlights 'high beams'? Bleedin Americanisms.

Normal lights are headlights full beams are for non lit up areas, side lights are pretty much pointless and parking lights are for parking leaving left/right on depending on which side is closer to the centre of the road.

In the past week alone I must have flashed at about 7 cars without their lights on, this week, it was more men :rolleyes:

I have a system, I flash full beams, then turn my headlights off to complete darkness for a second and straight back on, usually gets the message through. If somebody is driving with sidelights on in darkness, I wont flash full beams, but I'll flick from headlights to sidelights and back again, a lot of people with sidelights on in darkness wont know what you're doing so is futile, but is has worked before

P.C.

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

In my experience women tend to be more guilty by a significant degree of forgetting to turn their headlights on and driving around in dark. While out walking earlier I tried to indicate to a young lady that her headlights were'nt on by pointing to her headlights as she drove by. She didnt notice me and kept bombing up the busy Dublin road.
So people, in your experience, who are more likely to do this?

People who do not turn on their lights when it gets dark.

ejmaztec

Wot no farmers with burned out wicks on their 1938 tractors?

Photi

Not only at nighttime. People who don't switch on their lights in heavy rain or dark daytime conditions annoy me too.

dr.bollocko

Well excuse me all to hell for trying to lower my carbon footprint.

cormie

but if you have a crash and the car bursts into flames, your footprint will be kickin a hole through the atmosphere

Owenw

Not voting because I see idiots of both sexes doing stupid things everyday.

Often wondered is there a system of flashes which could be adopted to deal with these drivers?

e.g.

• 1x long flash for full beam headlights.
• 2x flashes for front/rear fog lights (when there is no fog).
• 3x flashes for broken bulb(s) (front or back).

and so on...

If the Traffic Corps pulled people over and dished out the odd fine and a warning the problem would quickly be resolved.
Maybe we should setup a Reserve Traffic Corps to deal with the minor traffic offences we see every day?

ejmaztec

Owenw wrote: »

Not voting because I see idiots of both sexes doing stupid things everyday.

Often wondered is there a system of flashes which could be adopted to deal with these drivers?

e.g.

• 1x long flash for full beam headlights.
• 2x flashes for front/rear fog lights (when there is no fog).
• 3x flashes for broken bulb(s) (front or back).

and so on...

If the Traffic Corps pulled people over and dished out the odd fine and a warning the problem would quickly be resolved.
Maybe we should setup a Reserve Traffic Corps to deal with the minor traffic offences we see every day?

What if they lose count of all the flashes, or don't see the first one? They won't know what's going on. What about "Flash" - "Hoot" - "Flash" - "Hoot"?