Distracted Driving and The Nanny State

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Re: Distracted Driving and The Nanny State

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machinegunkelly wrote:Also don't forget to look out for how many miscreants drive the rain with their wipers on, but not their headlights.
The wife and I play the old VW slug bug game with it. I've noticed a lot of Leo's that run that way.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that it's a good idea for self preservation, like motorcycle helmets, but don't make it a law.
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In Ohio headlights on with wipers has allegedly been a law since 09, although allegedly a secondary violation.

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Seat belts laws were also sold to the public as secondary violations, now there are ad campaigns and straight up threats of seeing people with night vision and zero tolerance.
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Re: Distracted Driving and The Nanny State

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schmieg wrote:
WestonDon wrote:I blacked out the sensor on my truck. Headlights are on when the engine is running. Works for me. I tried doing the same thing to the wife's Fusion. didn't work out. The problem there is that with the headlights on the instrument cluster gets dimmer and can't be seen in bright sunlight.
I thought most of the newer cars that lacked a sensor to adjust the panel lights had a setting on the dimmer switch to brighten them to daylight mode.
Maybe it does. I'll have to take a look. Thanks for the tip.
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machinegunkelly wrote:Also don't forget to look out for how many miscreants drive the rain with their wipers on, but not their headlights.
The wife and I play the old VW slug bug game with it. I've noticed a lot of Leo's that run that way.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that it's a good idea for self preservation, like motorcycle helmets, but don't make it a law.
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Some folks no lights at all, some other folks have decided daytime running lights meet the requirements of the law.

Don't even get me started on the morons who pull to the left side to get their mail, or use the left lane as a turn lane to turn left on a 2 lane road.

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Re: Distracted Driving and The Nanny State

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What about the dude on the street corner twirling the sign to get me to do my taxes there, or buy a pizza?
He's distracting me, mommy!
What about the flashing OPEN sign in that business? It distracted me!
If I honk, and you look, weren't you distracted?
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And those new 277,128KW LED billboards. Can see them literally a mile away driving at night. Up high at traditional billboard heighth, not so bad. But a lot of stores are putting them out at ...eye level as their main sign.

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