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Not everyone lives in Chuckletown USA where one simply pulls out over from a single lane to wait it out. Try that on a four to six lane expressway with near zero visibility surrounded by other dozens of cars that are also moving.
Especially when 50% of those vehicles are semi trucks. No way I am pulling over on the highway in the pouring rain to wait it out. My life is more important than some perceived hazard supposedly created when I use my flashers in heavy rain.
Notice where I'm posting from. Apparently we have enough Yankee here that I 've never seen it.
I moved from Raleigh 2 years ago after living there for 34 years. Not sure how you never saw it unless you never drove in a torrential downpour. It was very common there when driving on 40 or 440 in heavy rains.
How do you expect drivers behind you to know if your stopped on the road or just driving SLOW. This drives most people crazy and is against the law in Florida. So all you drivers who think you can confuse other drivers behind you. Good luck. You are not being safe by doing this.
What difference does it make if you are stopped on the road or just driving slow? The purpose of hazard lights is to warn other drivers, so they don't run into you.
When the rain is coming down in sheets and you can't see five feet in front of you, why are you driving? Pull over, stop, THEN hit your flashers and wait for the shower to pass. Heavy blinding showers rarely last more than ten minutes. Are you really in that much of a hurry that the world can't spare you for ten minutes?
That is terrible logic. So you start to slow down and are looking for a place to pull over and then you see a good place. 15 mph, 10 mph, 5 mph, you are almost there, then... BAM, an 18 wheeler traveling 50 mph slams into you. All because you didn't want to turn on your precious hazard lights until you came to a complete stop. Suddenly stopping your car on a roadway in poor visibility, without FIRST turning on your hazard lights to warn the drivers behind you is just reckless driving.
Right as if th cop is going to get out in a heavy thunder storm to give you a ticket just for having your flashers on.
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.
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