No lights on 😳😳😳😳😳

[harrycatcat1]

Yesterday I drove back from Stratford to Chesterfield. The traffic was pretty bad but when it was clear on the M1 but lashing it down with rain there were cars with no lights on thrashing past me at 70 mph +.

Is it that nowadays they think the cars will turn their lights on for them? My car has auto for the lights but when it's bad like yesterday I put the lights on manual so you don't have to keep checking they are still on. It seems that some folk have no concept of danger. 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

4 minutes ago, harrycatcat1 said:

Yesterday I drove back from Stratford to Chesterfield. The traffic was pretty bad but when it was clear on the M1 but lashing it down with rain there were cars with no lights on thrashing past me at 70 mph +.

Is it that nowadays they think the cars will turn their lights on for them?  YES!   My car has auto for the lights but when it's bad like yesterday I put the lights on manual so you don't have to keep checking they are still on.  ME TOO! 

It seems that some folk have no concept of danger. YOU cannot legislate for STUPIDITY!

We see loads of vehicles with automatic lights on, white side lights in the front and nothing on the rear.

[JKD]

47 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

We see loads of vehicles with automatic lights on, white side lights in the front and nothing on the rear.

Ditto,,,, and it appears that if it's 0800 or 1530 (short daylight hours) you (not you literally 🙈) don't need to put your vehicle's lights on. See this far too often 🤔

[jall25]

52 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

We see loads of vehicles with automatic lights on, white side lights in the front and nothing on the rear.

This to me is the real scary thing - the lights are on at the front but nothing on the rear - this really does need legislative change 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

9 minutes ago, jall25 said:

This to me is the real scary thing - the lights are on at the front but nothing on the rear - this really does need legislative change 

It is just like the confidence drivers seem to have in the "Daylight Driving Lights" that are on all the time, day or night!

Far too much reliance placed upon convenience rather than actually preventing accidents, much like the motorcyclists who do not have their headlights on dipped beam during the day and wear dark clothing!

[harrycatcat1]

1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

We see loads of vehicles with automatic lights on, white side lights in the front and nothing on the rear.

Some had got no lights on the front or the back 🙄🙄🙄

[billytheghillie]

And then you have the plums who dont know how to switch on fog lights when its foggy.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

2 minutes ago, billytheghillie said:

And then you have the plums who dont know how to switch on fog lights when its foggy.

Or off when it's NOT!

[Newbie to this]

15 minutes ago, billytheghillie said:

And then you have the plums who dont know how to switch on fog lights when its foggy.

Or the plums that switch them on when it is raining, or the plums that switch them on when there is light fog, and visibility is still good.

[Lord O War]

2 hours ago, Newbie to this said:

Or the plums that switch them on when it is raining, or the plums that switch them on when there is light fog, and visibility is still good.

I would have execution chambers at the side of the road for these plums!

 

Anyone else find their lights are useless at night. With it getting darker I am putting on the lights and the number of times I have to check they are on is incredible. Ive cleaned the lenses and its still like I am driving with no lights on, unlit sections of the motorway are particularly exciting. Perhaps I have just been spoiled by the HIDS in the Jaaaag. Mind you that steams up at the drop of a hat because the AC has packed in!

[London Best]

4 hours ago, Newbie to this said:

Or the plums that switch them on when it is raining, or the plums that switch them on when there is light fog, and visibility is still good.

And blind you so you cannot see the vehicles behind them!

[WalkedUp]

I run at 0630 every morning mainly across country but back along some country lanes. New cars now have “automatic full beam headlights”... which means that any pedestrian they encounter is blinded and for good effect rather than turn the lights off as they see the lights of a car around the bend they need to “see” the car in order to temporarily blind other drivers. I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve needed full beams this year. If you need them on when driving in good weather you are going too fast for your eyesight and should either slow down or not venture out at night! 

[Stonepark]

Just now, WalkedUp said:

New cars now have “automatic full beam headlights”... which means that any pedestrian they encounter is blinded and for good effect rather than turn the lights off as they see the lights of a car around the bend they need to “see” the car in order to temporarily blind other drivers.

My XHP110 head lamp shining back at them solves that particular problem when walking the dog.

[London Best]

10 hours ago, Stonepark said:

My XHP110 head lamp shining back at them solves that particular problem when walking the dog.

Most wearing those round here are a dangerous nuisance.

[Yellow Bear]

8 hours ago, London Best said:

Most wearing those round here are a dangerous nuisance.

Aahh you mean the cyclepaths.

[Walker570]

........then you have the one eyed monsters that look like motorcycles coming toward you.  In my time on the beat they were good fodder for the little reperation ticket, get it mended and report to your local nick in seven days or you get a fine.

 

[Dave-G]

On 28/12/2022 at 15:23, TIGHTCHOKE said:

We see loads of vehicles with automatic lights on, white side lights in the front and nothing on the rear.

Hmm but following vehicles will light up quite effective red reflectors to be fair.

[243deer]

Too many folk know that they cannot see very well in poor light and yet they drive anyway putting everyone at risk. If it is daylight, however gloomy. folk should be able to see a car without lights as the law of averages means some folk will forget to put them on and other folk might not put them on because they can see perfectly well. You should be expecting this and deal with it.

 

[harrycatcat1]

On 30/12/2022 at 07:36, 243deer said:

Too many folk know that they cannot see very well in poor light and yet they drive anyway putting everyone at risk. If it is daylight, however gloomy. folk should be able to see a car without lights as the law of averages means some folk will forget to put them on and other folk might not put them on because they can see perfectly well. You should be expecting this and deal with it.

 

How do you deal with it 🤔

[joejoe]

I did nearly run a woman over in the rain as she was stepped out on the zebra crossing at night. The trouble was she was a wearing real tree camouflage jacket which worked a little too well against the hedge row. 

[Walker570]

I was interested to read about the new fangled Matrix headlight system which enables you to drive on main beam all the time and it automatically creates an area covering the approaching lights instead of dipping. Very clever.   Car lighting offences are now so prevalent you have to be on guard at all times. One serious danger is parking without lights and of course if the owner hasn't cleaned the reflectpors then they will not work anyway.   I see so many offences on a twenty mile journey these days which would have collected a ticket or a warning, but there is no law out there to do it.   As one mid service officer said to me last year..."We're just social workers these days".

[243deer]

On 31/12/2022 at 08:42, harrycatcat1 said:

How do you deal with it 🤔

I can see perfectly well thanks, maybe it is constant practice at dawn and dusk

[harrycatcat1]

7 hours ago, 243deer said:

I can see perfectly well thanks, maybe it is constant practice at dawn and dusk

 

[old'un]

Don't know about putting lights on in bad weather but it amazes me the amount of people I see driving off with just a letter box view on their frosted front window.