Idiots with no lights on when dark!!!

PARKHEAD67

Noticed today theres quite a few morons driving around with no lights on when its practically pitch black outside. Is it a saving the battery exercise or are they just plain, bloody thick as a shed of turf??Irish drivers never cease to amaze. And they go on about over 120km being dangerous on a motorway.Jesus wept.

number10a

Or driving around with parking lights!!! The clue is in the name - parking lights.... Don't drive with them!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

x in the city

Ireland has a lot of idiots, I see that a lot in Cork.

saw someone lamping it along college road once with not a light on..

some people...

thalia_13

Try the m4 yesterday as it got dark around 4.30! thick fog and gobshxtes with no lights on at all, let alone fog lights. Result was stupid driving with two lanes of cars none making progress, with constant braking from cars with no lights on as they came upon cars with no lights on. Wish i could say that every unlit car turned on their lights once they came up on a car, but no, brake lights seemed to sufficient for them. Never was i so glad to crawl along and just get home safe!

snaps

In my opinion it should be law to drive with lights on 24 hrs a day, what ever the conditions from october till march. I never have my lights turned off this time of the year.

TouchingVirus

snaps wrote: »

In my opinion it should be law to drive with lights on 24 hrs a day, what ever the conditions from october till march. I never have my lights turned off this time of the year.

Why even stop at October to March? There is many a dreary, hazy, grey day during the summer months where seeing somebody in a grey car while walking is tough enough with lights, never mind without. It should be law that all cars sold should have the lights hooked up to the ignition and be on all the time - key in? Lights on. Key out? Lights off (unless you press a button to keep them on). Just because you can see the pedestrian doesn't mean they can see you. Besides, keeping the lights on while driving doesn't save electricity, it's not a house light :pac:

Standard Toaster

I've my lights on all the time, all year round. Luckily the car kills them when the turbo timer kicks in and shuts off the ignition. No fear of me having a dead battary.

I've flashed no end of cars in the last few weeks, amazes me poeple do that

rugbyman

heres a thread for me to join in.
For some time had been meaning to post.
in my work i drive many cars and on occasions I find the dash illuminated while no exterior lights are on.
i cannot give many examples but the one certain one is the Merc B class i drove last week. def a dodgy situation.

Rugbyman

biko

Aye, it's because they don't need the headlights in the city to see around them.
And if the dash lights are on they don't notice.

DRL ftw

Jimbob1977

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Why even stop at October to March? There is many a dreary, hazy, grey day during the summer months where seeing somebody in a grey car while walking is tough enough with lights, never mind without. It should be law that all cars sold should have the lights hooked up to the ignition and be on all the time - key in? Lights on. Key out? Lights off (unless you press a button to keep them on). Just because you can see the pedestrian doesn't mean they can see you. Besides, keeping the lights on while driving doesn't save electricity, it's not a house light :pac:

In Ontario (Canada), it is a legal requirement to use dipped headlights 24 hours a day. The cars are fitted with a electronic device that keeps the dipped headlights on, even if the switch is kept in the manual "Off" position.

I asked the guy in Hertz about activating the dipped headlights and he said that it didn't really matter!! They'd activate themselves. I thought I'd sat into Kitt! Is that you, Michael?

The worst culprits are grey cars in the pouring rain at 4.30pm dusk or 8am sunrise. They are practically invisible, yet still travel at 120 km/h

Mc Love

What about when its wet and visibility is poor and people dont switch their lights on. Passed two women on the M7 between Nenagh and Limerick and flashed/signalled to both of them and they just continued on driving in their own little world

phill106

We need a standard way of letting people know their lights are off. I tend to turn off and on my lights rapidly.
If you just flash them, they just think there is a checkpoint or something up ahead!

Padraig Mor

Came across a real Einstein last night on the South Ring dual carriageway in Cork. 8 o clock so proper pitch dark. Came across a Corolla driving Mensa candidate with NO lights on whatsoever. Not rear-lights-broken-but-fronts-fine; no lights at all. Gave him a few flashes from behind in an non-aggressive as possible manner. No reaction. Overtook him and pulled level. Beeped horn and tried my best to point at his lights. Continued on and pulled into left lane in front of him, whereupon he starts blasting me with his full headlights before continuing on his merry, and dark, way. Kids in the back and all....

mikemac

I see it a lot in towns

With streetlights some drivers don't seem to notice their lights are not on

Idleater

phill106 wrote: »

We need a standard way of letting people know their lights are off. I tend to turn off and on my lights rapidly.
If you just flash them, they just think there is a checkpoint or something up ahead!

I was about to try that too to some person I saw with no lights on on the M50 one evening, but when I passed them I saw that while their back lights were off, their front lights were working.

I wondered to myself how long before they figure it out with someone smashing into the back of them.

Mint Sauce

On the way back from dublin last night, frezzing fog, if you were in it you would know it how bad it was.

Stopped at the N4 services, noticed a car with trailer, seen the lights on the back of his car, but not one on the trailler apart from a couple of small red reflecters.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

2qk4u

There should be a stupid test before you get your licence. Cant get over the amount of people driving around with fog lights on blinding the oncoming traffic on an unlit back road. Its not cool, your car does not look cool, you are not cool, turn them off !

Mc Love

phill106 wrote: »

We need a standard way of letting people know their lights are off. I tend to turn off and on my lights rapidly.
If you just flash them, they just think there is a checkpoint or something up ahead!

I know but these were on the same side of the road as me travelling in the same direction.

I turned my lights on and off and still didnt get the message.

vibe666

2qk4u wrote: »

There should be a stupid test before you get your licence. Cant get over the amount of people driving around with fog lights on blinding the oncoming traffic on an unlit back road. Its not cool, your car does not look cool, you are not cool, turn them off !

i always said that if i had the power to stop time, i would totally waste it because i'd be driving round and freezing time whenever i see someone with their foglights on, hopping out of my car, smashing them and then hopping back in and carrying on.

there should be a security device fitted to all cars that detects when its starting to get dark and gradually increases an electrical charge through the steering wheel and the only way you can stop it is to turn on your lights. it should also have a forward facing light sensor so that any time someone repeatedly flashes you it gives you a big jolt to let you know you're being a clown in some way or another.

phill106

2qk4u wrote: »

There should be a stupid test before you get your licence.

Like a driving test perhaps? Capital idea!








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