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If you run into me in the rain, the accident report is going to show that you ignored my hazard lights.
I won't run into you in the rain even if they were off. How do you know the police report wouldn't say that some other driver hit you because your hazards confused them? You don't write the report yourself, you know.
You have to slow down before you can pull over. If you are slowing down and preparing to pull over because you are having a hard time seeing, then the car behind you will be having a hard time seeing you. If you don't warn the driver behind you in advance, that you are having difficulty and slowing down to pull over, the driver behind you will not have time to react. One second you are both traveling 40 mph, and the next second you have slowed to 30 mph and the car behind you is still going 40 mph, because you don't want to put on your hazard lights until after you stop.
Putting on your hazard lights after you stop is like putting on your turn signal after you make a turn.
Did you even look at that link you posted? According to that list it's only illegal to drive with hazard lights on in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico. Which means that it is LEGAL to drive with hazard lights on in the vast majority of states.
Did you even look at that link you posted? According to that list it's only illegal to drive with hazard lights on in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico. Which means that it is LEGAL to drive with hazard lights on in the vast majority of states.
it is illegal to drive with lights on in the vast majority of states unless in case of emergency or traffic hazard.
-rain is not a traffic hazard useless you have to stop completely of fall below 30 miles per hour - the correct procedure is to turn the headlights on.
so in most cases unless you are driving on a hurricane it is ilegal to do so.
I won't run into you in the rain even if they were off. How do you know the police report wouldn't say that some other driver hit you because your hazards confused them? You don't write the report yourself, you know.
Why would they be confused by hazard lights??? What's there to be confused about? Not matter what the road conditions or number of cars on the road, if you find yourself coming up on the car in front of you, you are the one who needs to slow down and back off.
I've received 20 reputation bumps off of this thread, way more than any other in my history here. It must've been the "rebel scooter" comment! Ha!
I just don't see the issue here. If someone wants to kick on their hazards in a blinding rain storm, so be it. We should all be slowing down anyway when we can't see 20 feet in front of us.
Some cars (mine included) have a little button that will illuminate a bright light on the back driver's side of the car that is meant for fog and rain. I think that is more annoying than hazards, as it looks like the car is applying the brakes. Volvo, Merc's, and several others have this button.
LOL, when was the last time you saw a cop pull anybody over for anything in the middle of a thunderstorm? When the storm hits all the cops head to the doughnut shops for their breaks. Because 1. they don't want to have to get out of their cars in the rain and get wet, and 2. doing so, would be extremely hazardous. If they didn't get hit by a hydroplaning vehicle that could get stuck by lightning. That's why cops work hard to fill their ticket quota while the sun is shining, so they don't have to do it in bad weather.
I realise this isn’t about hazards, or even the U.S., but it is about cops in the rain.
I was driving a 2000 gallon oil tanker, between Andover, Hampshire, and Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K., not in a thunderstorm, but in heavy rain, when a cop pulled me over.
He got in on the passenger side, sat down, and said, “There is something hanging down, under the front of the driver compartment,close to the wheel.”
I said, “There is? I had no idea.”
He said, “Well you’d better check it out.”
I got out, in the pouring rain, and looked under the wheel arch, nothing.
I told the cop, and he said, “You’d better get right under from the front.”
I took another look, zilch, and climbed back up to the cab, like a drowned rat, “Can’t see anything”, I said.
The cop said, “It must have been your foot, at the speed you were doing, it must have been through the floor.”
I learned a small lesson that night, but it didn’t stop me from leaning on the gas when the opportunity arose.
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