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02-19-2005, 08:51 PM
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Another safety tip: when stopping on the highway say for road construction, leave plenty of space between you and the next car foreward. Also, turn the wheel so you'd steer off into the ditch. I've known several people who died being rear-ended by semi-trucks and being smashed into many cars foreward in line.
02-19-2005, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Stranger' date='Feb 19 2005, 06:14 PM
The hazard lights were meant to broken down vehicles. So it might confuse others sometimes as to whether the car is moving.
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02-19-2005, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Feb 19 2005, 09:54 PM
[quote name='Stranger' date='Feb 19 2005, 06:14 PM']The hazard lights were meant to broken down vehicles. So it might confuse others sometimes as to whether the car is moving.
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[/quote]EXACTLY!!! I dont care what the auto-mobile association says...
02-19-2005, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Stranger' date='Feb 19 2005, 03:14 PM
Interesting, the automobile association here discourages drivers from doing so. The hazard lights were meant to broken down vehicles. So it might confuse others sometimes as to whether the car is moving.
However, over here too many drivers put on the hazard lights while driving in the rain. I mean everyone should have already known it is pouring, right?
However, over here too many drivers put on the hazard lights while driving in the rain. I mean everyone should have already known it is pouring, right?
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OH REALLY??? it was raining today and some guy on the freeway was driving with his hazzards on... wasnt pouring... I wondered why he had his hazzards on... Must have came from Singapore
02-19-2005, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by EBMCS03' date='Feb 20 2005, 03:39 AM
[quote name='Rudy' date='Feb 19 2005, 09:54 PM'][quote name='Stranger' date='Feb 19 2005, 06:14 PM']The hazard lights were meant to broken down vehicles. So it might confuse others sometimes as to whether the car is moving.
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[/quote]That's fine if everyone thinks you are stopped. When you are stopped and if drivers behind think you are moving, then good luck. Brake lights are supposed to be that signal but everyone gets so used to it and its effect is no longer as obvious. Hazard lights seem to be something diff, so others may take notice. Once everybody gets used to it, complacency will step in again. :'(
02-20-2005, 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Stranger' date='Feb 20 2005, 03:44 AM
That's fine if everyone thinks you are stopped. When you are stopped and if drivers behind think you are moving, then good luck. Brake lights are supposed to be that signal but everyone gets so used to it and its effect is no longer as obvious. Hazard lights seem to be something diff, so others may take notice. Once everybody gets used to it, complacency will step in again. :'(
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02-20-2005, 07:25 AM
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. . . or fiddling with iDrive type stuff. I use my flashers anytime I think I might become an obstruction to someone's path, but have had better luck keeping my black raincoat in the closet lately. 
