idiots you have seen today!!!

[Sweep]

I genuinely don't understand how they don't know. Day running headlights are very bright so you could be fooled into thinking you have lights on looking out the windscreen. But surely the fact you can't see your dashboard because it's pitch black should be a dead giveaway???

You can get caught out. My car has auto lights but when I took it in for service last week they had turned the lights off. I also have daytime running lights so I didn't notice I had no lights on until I drove into a less well lit area. So I had lights on at the front (day running lights) but none on at the back and my instrument panel lit up like a Christmas tree. As it's digital, it's lit up all the time.

 

[Region3]

I genuinely don't understand how they don't know. Day running headlights are very bright so you could be fooled into thinking you have lights on looking out the windscreen. But surely the fact you can't see your dashboard because it's pitch black should be a dead giveaway???

Even without auto headlights or daytime running lights, some cars have the dashboards permanently lit. I've had a Vauxhall and a Seat that both did it and it caught me out a few times.
You tend to notice relatively quickly though, like driving in dimly lit areas or you notice no relection on the car in front when you're in a queue.
People driving the whole journey like that are just not paying attention.

 

[Dando]

on my walk to the station this morning a guy drove passed me trying to see out of his windscreen that was still frosted on the outside and steamed up on the inside. he was leaning forward looking out of the small area that his heater had cleared which was no more than 3-6 inches high.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Saw a grown man wearing a football shirt (he wasn't playing football).

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Even without auto headlights or daytime running lights, some cars have the dashboards permanently lit. I've had a Vauxhall and a Seat that both did it and it caught me out a few times.
You tend to notice relatively quickly though, like driving in dimly lit areas or you notice no relection on the car in front when you're in a queue.
People driving the whole journey like that are just not paying attention.

My Volkswagon van has a dash binnacle that is lit all the time, however it also has a light sensor in the dash so if it detects the amibient light has dropped (going through a tunnel or night-time) the dash backlighting is dimmed to off so then your dash is black and unreadable until you turn the lights on.

 

[Golfmmad]

Even without auto headlights or daytime running lights, some cars have the dashboards permanently lit. I've had a Vauxhall and a Seat that both did it and it caught me out a few times.
You tend to notice relatively quickly though, like driving in dimly lit areas or you notice no relection on the car in front when you're in a queue.
People driving the whole journey like that are just not paying attention.

Speaking of daytime running lights, I think manufacturers should include rear lights as daytime lights as well. People think that their daytime lights in poor visibility are enough, but its driving with no lights on at the rear.

I see so many idiots on motorways and dual carriageways driving in heavy rain with no lights on at all! The spray from the road surface makes them almost invisible. Why? Put yer flippin lights on!

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

Speaking of daytime running lights, I think manufacturers should include rear lights as daytime lights as well. People think that their daytime lights in poor visibility are enough, but its driving with no lights on at the rear.

I see so many idiots on motorways and dual carriageways driving in heavy rain with no lights on at all! The spray from the road surface makes them almost invisible. Why? Put yer flippin lights on!

Hang on, you do or you don't see them?

 

[Norrin Radd]

i saw one being sworn in as president of America

 

[Deleted member 18645]

I saw about a million of them protesting about "democracy" because they lost.

 

[Hobbit]

i saw one being sworn in as president of America

Damn! Beat me to it...

 

[patricks148]

Saw a woman heavily pregnant walking along the riverside tonight, absolutely stottin.

My wife asked if she was OK, but only got the reply "feck off"

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Why do people have their fog lights on in urban areas? If you can't see a car 30 yards in front of you then you shouldn't be on the road full stop!

 

[Imurg]

Driving to the course this morning - it's dark, foggy, -2°C and slippy.(there's one idiot there!)
And I'm doing 29mph in a 30 limit - and I'm being overtaken.......
And as the Muppet pulls back in he sets up a slide, manages to correct it and disappears off into the gloom.....
Not sure what planet he was in orbit around but it wasn't ours..
He's probably in a ditch now......