After my mother had several small strokes her cognitive abilities deteriorated along with her ability to drive. We tried to get her Dr. to declare her unfit to drive so we could get her license revoked but he declined. We found her car in the garage one day with the entire drivers side wiped out from front to back, she claimed to know nothing about how it happened. Got her Dr. to finally restrict her driving, had the car repaired and took it away from her after it came out of the body shop. She wasn't happy about it but finally agreed she shouldn't drive anymore and I sold the car, glad she didn't kill anybody.
Some People Should Not Drive!
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Birdgun
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I'm the old codger driving my red pickup well below the speed limit with my left turn signal constantly on. I slow down well before the intersection and at the intersection I come to a stop. Look both ways. Then turn right.
Have you seen me? Hope you like my red pickup. I try to keep it clean and presentable.
Some drivers are rude to me. But I wave back at them and smile even though they seem angry. Seems there's lots of folk having bad days and need a smile.
God bless,
Birdgun
Have you seen me? Hope you like my red pickup. I try to keep it clean and presentable.
Some drivers are rude to me. But I wave back at them and smile even though they seem angry. Seems there's lots of folk having bad days and need a smile.
God bless,
Birdgun
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LVSteve
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They look like that at 35 here because of the meth. The guys can look pretty rough, too.
He has to drive like that, He is not allowed to drive on the sidewalk any longer.
I get it. Had a guy almost pull out in front of me from his driveway on a country road. I had my lights and fog lamps on, It's not like I was in stealth mode, and it was still daylight.
Another thing I'll never figure out. People driving in heavy fog with their high beams on. All they're doing is creating a wall of white, especially in the dark.
Darwin walks among us.
Another thing I'll never figure out. People driving in heavy fog with their high beams on. All they're doing is creating a wall of white, especially in the dark.
Darwin walks among us.
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NO ! ! ! Darwin DRIVES among us.
Point taken.
LVSteve
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Actually, I can explain that. My experience from driving in England (AKA Fog Central) shows that you either use very low mounted foglamps with a razor sharp cutoff, or an absolute shed load of light to see in fog. The fog lamp fix I think we all understand. The second method I scoffed at until I had the chance to try it in a vehicle with suitably powerful lights. Boy, color me shocked when I tried it.
Lots of light works because with enough, your eyes go into a sort of logarithmic response mode. This allows you to pick up stuff beyond the apparent wall of white. The key is having a LOT of light. In the last two cars I had in England, one ran 90/130W bulbs and the other had a 4-lamp setup with 55W lows (on all the time) and 100W in each high beam light with them set for a lot of spread, not zeroed in one spot like guns on a WWII fighter.
The reason I ran lights like that was less about fog and more about rain, and we saw a lot more of the latter. I also lived in a pretty rural area where chunky critters and escaped farm animals in the road were not unknown.
