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I think it is a bit immature to hang things from your mirror and the bad driving correlation is due to the drivers being younger and less experienced behind the wheel.
I don't know if kids still do this but they used to hang their tassle from their HS graduation.
I have one hanging up but it's not from HS so adults do it too.
Nope , as I really don't notice what other folks have hanging from their mirrors. Too busy keeping myself and my car safe and away from the speeders, tailgaters, line cutters and all other forms of bad drivers.
They are more likely afraid to forget to put it up at the destination and get a fat ticket, or get towed. Leaving it up is easier. My solution was to just get the plates.
We have both the plate and for riding in someone else's car the placard.
There are some crap towns that will fine you if you forget to display it. Think $250.
When I applied for a handicapped placard for my son, the Colorado DMV did make a point of telling me several times to not drive with the card on the rear view mirror.
Apparently it can result in a charge for “Obstructed View” or something like that.
I tell my parents to take it down. It definitely obstructs view.
I think it is a bit immature to hang things from your mirror and the bad driving correlation is due to the drivers being younger and less experienced behind the wheel.
I don't know if kids still do this but they used to hang their tassle from their HS graduation.
I didn’t give a crap about my HS grad tassel...but I was proud of graduating from college & grad school, both with honors & with no help other than my own strength, so both of those tassels were on my rear view mirror for years...I never realized it was illegal until now...oooops!
Oh well, I took them down years ago & don’t even remember where they are.
TBH, I’m more concerned about drivers & cell phones, or drivers & “substances”. Yesterday, I was waiting at a light & watched a female driver take a selfie as the light changed & we pulled away, then a couple miles down, a guy in a truck was tokin’ on a doobie.
Now that I pointed it out I bet a few weeks from now you will say that citi data poster was right. Just start noticing that slow left laners and the people who insist on almost stopping before a right turn, they have junk hanging on the mirror much more often then average.
Junk on mirror doesn't = bad driver but for some reason bad driver more then average has junk hanging from the mirror.
I have noticed while driving, that people who are checking the junk hanging from the mirrors on other peoples' cars are themselves bad drivers. On the same token, as I check these drivers from my car as they check other peoples' mirrors, I often realize that I too, often am a bad driver, for my eyes should be on the road and not on other drivers.
Last edited by RayinAK; 12-16-2017 at 12:35 PM..
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