The weather out there is horrendous!

Mint Sauce

For goodness sake. Turn your lights on.

It difficult enough to see the road at times without trying to make out blured shapes in the mist and spray.

When will people realise that they are to help you be seen as well as help you see.

Rant over.

mike65

Lovely down here, well a little overcast now but dry.

Tomas_S

Loads of bad drivers that dont realize what they're doing

Monty.

+ 1 to the OP > Good safety reminder.

People in Ireland do not switch on their dips half enough.
Certain colours of car can be much harder to see than others depending on the conditions.

Germany, Spain, France and others have encouraged or required daytime use of low-beam headlamps on certain roads at certain times of year, Ireland encourages and Bulgaria requires the use of low-beam headlights at all times during winter, Italy, Hungary and Romania require daytime running lamps outside populated areas, and Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia require the use of full or reduced voltage low-beam headlights at all times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

From the rules of the Road ;

Daytime running lights

Daytime running lights refers to driving with dipped head lights during daytime, The use of dipped headlights can help reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on our roads.

mike65

Oh we've had the DRL debate here a few times.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=91217
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055279009
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056037973

-Chris-

And for the love of God, whoever of you actually heed this advice - stop surfing the internet while you're driving!! :eek:




:D

RandomAccess

Nice day in Letterkenny, so not sure where this bad weather is???

Location given is NorthWest so should be up ere somewhere I suppose.

Mint Sauce

RandomAccess wrote: »

Nice day in Letterkenny, so not sure where this bad weather is???

Location given is NorthWest so should be up ere somewhere I suppose.

Well it was horrendous in the west.

:P

Graham_B18C

I'm in Dublin and it's miserable

TestTransmission

Graham_B18C wrote: »

I'm in Dublin and it's miserable

Nothing new there so...

corktina

irish-stew wrote: »

For goodness sake. Turn your lights on.

It difficult enough to see the road at times without trying to make out blured shapes in the mist and spray.

When will people realise that they are to help you be seen as well as help you see.

Rant over.

preaching to the converted on here largely Id say

unkel

Driving on the M4 between Maynooth and Lucan at around 5PM during a massive cloudburst and there were several drivers who kept their speed (well over 100km/h) and didn't switch their lights on :rolleyes:

Idiots, incompetent clowns. You'd nearly wish they got a nice bout of aquaplaning scaring the sh1t out of them...

Mint Sauce

unkel wrote: »

Driving on the M4 between Maynooth and Lucan at around 5PM during a massive cloudburst and there were several drivers who kept their speed (well over 100km/h) and didn't switch their lights on :rolleyes:

Idiots, incompetent clowns. You'd nearly wish they got a nice bout of aquaplaning scaring the sh1t out of them...

I was nearly pulling over on the N17 only for there was no where to pull in, and yet there was still the odd one with no lights on.

Doom

Amazing how many people think parking lights are dipped headlights

The Big Red Button

Doom wrote: »

Amazing how many people think parking lights are dipped headlights

Which are you saying you should use, parking lights or dipped headlights?

Personally I always drive with dipped heads on during the day ...

Tigger

Doom wrote: »

Amazing how many people think parking lights are dipped headlights

You'd think the name would help

Dartz

Also. Watch out for puddles.

Thought I'd make a splash... ended up having to wade through. Some are deceptively deep because this was a metric ****tonne of rain.