Driving in heavy rain/fog. With flashers, or without? The Poll

Do you use your emergency flashers in heavy rain while driving?

  • Why no, no I don't.

    Votes: 67 77.9%

  • Yes I do.

    Votes: 14 16.3%

  • Not only do I drive with my flashers on in heavy rain or fog, I do it from the left lane.

    Votes: 5 5.8%
  • Total voters
    86
  • Poll closed .
I voted no - lived here all my life.

We were always taught that hazard lights meant just that - hazard. As in the vehicle that had them on was posing a hazard (breakdown, etc.) to normal traffic. So if you were driving along and saw them it meant there was some potentially serious danger ahead, and you best be slowing down and paying attention.

But now that a lot more people seem to use them for a lot more reasons, it takes away (in my mind anyway) from the seriousness of their use. When I see them nowadays, I don't know if the person is broke down, stopped in the middle of the road, driving 30 miles/hour slower than me, using them for extra visibility, checking Facebook, etc.
 
Raining = headlights on, flashers mean I'm either stalled from driving thru a lake on the road after watching a lifted 4x4 do it and thinking well if he can do it I can too or broken down. So what if my car is only 6 or 8 inches above the ground, drivers of those other cars stuck there didn't know what they were doing. Or in a funeral procession due to death by nagging from my wife who was in the passenger seat while I attempted to prove I could make it by pointing out just how intelligent I am.
 
Hazards are for broken down cars, tow vehicles, or limping down the road to the next exit if something's wrong. Also funerals, though I think processions need to go away too... Beyond that, leave the damn things off. It's not making anything safer. Move over if you are capable of going CLOSE to the speed limit. If you can't, pull off until you can wash out your vag.

Flashers make the road more dangerous because no one can tell if you are planning on changing lanes or turning or stalled in the road. You are actually creating a hazard not alerting folks to one. We see the rain/snow too, dumbass...
 
I do not.... however everyone knows that turning on your flashers adds 2x traction to your vehicle.
 
I would hazard s guess that a lot of you guys never drive in the heavy fog of NC’s mountains. Hazard lights do make you more visible in that pea soup, and not driving in it isn’t an option to most folks who work for a living.
 
With today's lighting technology, how about some front and rear amber running lights similar to the grille lights in a Raptor? Or amber hazards separate from blinkers and brake lights? Good idea or bad?
 
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Europe has a rear fog light requirement. It is a single bright red light on the left side for countries that drive on the right, and on the right side for countries that drive on the left.
 
Only if the rain or fog is heavy enough that I’ve slowed down to significantly under the speed limit, and then my dumbass should probably pull over but I won’t.
 
JakeH said:
Only if the rain or fog is heavy enough that I’ve slowed down to significantly under the speed limit, and then my dumbass should probably pull over but I won’t.
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Here's an honest man right here. I think I fit in this category, too.
 
Some of you seem to be having more trouble with the poll results than the dems did with the 2016 election results LOL.
 
Nope. Flashers are for emergencies and roadside hazards. Broken down, limping along in a disabled car, or towing qualify. "Driving in rain" is not an emergency.

If its raining so hard you need flashers, its raining hard enough you need to pull over.
 
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