Almost certainly had had it in the garage for something and they'd turned her auto lights off. She probably doesn't even know where the switch is to turn them back on.
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Possibly, but that is dangerous even for the driver if* they end up on a unlit country road.
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Oh yeah I'm not excusing it but unless they were just a bit mental and like to live a risky life it seems like the most plausible explanation
Does Kona have a weird/modern way of controlling the headlights ? in the strive to reduce physical buttons controls have become obfuscated
(seems there is a high beam button on teslas wtf .... but, need to look up where the hazard lights are on my audi - didn't seem to be by the gear stick, like the bm, when I would have used them the other day)
(seems there is a high beam button on teslas wtf .... but, need to look up where the hazard lights are on my audi - didn't seem to be by the gear stick, like the bm, when I would have used them the other day)
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Seems conventional left and right stalks from the carwow review.
Got to love it.... The thing that most of these people don't seem to understand is that, if everyone used both lanes up until the merge point, then there would be no one "jumping the queue by skipping by dozens of cars".... Absolute fuds of the highest order
Fords (since about 2018) have had auto lights which you can turn off but, as soon as you turn the engine off and back on, the auto lights reactivate again to prevent this kind of accidental thing. All modern cars should have this.
Or do away with auto this and that and make drivers fully responsible for their actions.
Auto systems make drivers complacent. I've done it myself with my car's auto-wipers, expecting them to work when I've not realised I've knocked the stalk off.
Driving without lights in conditions that require them should be firmly in the 'Dangerous Driving' category. 6 points, 5k fine and no excuse, no warnings or "educating" from police. Straight penalty.
Not that I want to defend her, but in a modern car where the gauges are always illuminated and it has bright DRLs up front, and driving on what I presume was a well-lit motorway, I think it would be quite easy to miss that your headlights weren't on. Even if you're in traffic, you might see the reflections of your own DRLs on cars in front and assume the lights are on. Obviously it's not an excuse, as any competent driver should be paying attention to that, but modern cars don't really seem to be making things easier.
I'll even admit having done it myself. Years ago, not long after I first started driving, I dropped a mate home late one evening. Pulled up outside his house and flicked to sidelights while I was parked up. He got out and I drove off - the few miles home through town was on completely street lit roads and given that I could see fine and my dash was lit up, it didn't even occur to me that my headlights weren't on until I got within a few hundred yards of my house. Granted this was a Mk1 Focus s the lights weren't anything like modern cars, but that only exacerbated the problem; they weren't so bright that I'd easily miss them under street lights.
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I have done it too, so I understand that it happens. I didn't realize it until the car behind me flashed and it took me a second to understand and switch on my lights. It is the obliviousness of the driver that was concerning when other drivers tried to warn them.
Oh yeah that's fair enough. In fact I saw it happen a couple of weeks ago in rush hour traffic, a Prius with no lights on flashed by me and a couple of other drivers. If someone flashes me out of nowhere, then it must be for a visible reason so it's odd that anyone would not immediately think to check their lights.
Problem being, a van behind you on the motorway flashing his lights at you? More often than not that's probably just a van driver being a stereotypical bell end rather than trying to helpfully alert another road user to an error
The driver still is fully responsible. Even with auto lights you have to check they're on.
Do BMWs have done insane wet weather grip that means they're immune to flooded lane 3s of the M60.
Doing easy 80+ in these conditions is just insane.
Why can hardly anyone drive correctly in these conditions most slow down plenty but then bunch up. Traffic for no reason.
But that's where the complacency I mentioned comes in. "I've got auto-lights so they're on and I don't need to check" mentality.
Seeing so much of that with the recent weather - few seem able to drive correctly, albeit my own driving hasn't been perfect, with so many either driving way too slowly, way too fast and/or tailgating when their brain should be screaming at them to be more sensible... in my case was still within safe margins I'd have just extended them a bit in hindsight through a couple of sections.
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Out of all the bad driving I would say tailgating is the worst. Even with my almost 10 years of driving it annoys me and makes me wary. I don't engage with anyone but the trouble is I start focusing more on the car behind than I need to. This may result is me not being completely aware of other developing hazards like potholes or someone emerging from a minor road rather rapidly.
This morning a Qashqai driver tailgated so much despite me being defensive and maintaining safe distance from the vehicle ahead it gets you. I have learned to let them pass whenever it is safe to do so. The thing I keep in my head is "I am not married to them and I don't have to face them for the rest of my life as it's only a matter of few minutes before the idiot disappears"
This morning a Qashqai driver tailgated so much despite me being defensive and maintaining safe distance from the vehicle ahead it gets you. I have learned to let them pass whenever it is safe to do so. The thing I keep in my head is "I am not married to them and I don't have to face them for the rest of my life as it's only a matter of few minutes before the idiot disappears"
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This is it - put some distance between you and the risky driver, one way or another.The thing I keep in my head is "I am not married to them and I don't have to face them for the rest of my life as it's only a matter of few minutes before the idiot disappears"
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about 20 minutes i ago i was driving down the exit road of a car park. All of a sudden this car is coming at me from my right, he had driven through two empty spaces (spaces either side were occupied) and didn't think to stop at the end of the space nearest to me and give way. Luckily i managed to swerve but it was a matter of inches to avoid collision.
What an idiot.
What an idiot.
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Same car park and today someone has reversed out of a space into me. I was driving to find a space and shes gone right into the side of me.
I go to the gym everyday during lunch and i've never had a problem but on Monday i had a near miss and now this today.
I go to the gym everyday during lunch and i've never had a problem but on Monday i had a near miss and now this today.
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Need to get a car that's more visibleSame car park and today someone has reversed out of a space into me. I was driving to find a space and shes gone right into the side of me.
I go to the gym everyday during lunch and i've never had a problem but on Monday i had a near miss and now this today.
. Seriously though it's scary how many people seem to not look backwards when reversing. I watched somebody almost get run over by an idiot reversing out and not looking. It's one of the many reasons I always reverse in.