I've just spent nearly the entire week away from home working on site at Prestwick Airport. I'm based at home which is just south of Manchester and my patch is the entire UK from Sumburgh, Shetland in the north to London in the southeast and Bristol in the south west; so the bottom line is I travel a few miles by car ......

This afternoon/evening I have driven home from Prestwick, a journey of about 240 miles. The weather was absolute ' ' all the way. Why oh f@@king why can't people turn their lights on in bad weather? The average 'British' motorist seems to be totally unwilling to turn his/her lights on when the weather turns to ' ' but I don't understand why.

You're on the motorway, there is a huge amount of spray and the only way you can see other vehicles is if they have dipped headlights on. What happens? well at least 50% of motorists don't understand see and "be seen" so they don't even think to turn their lights on.... It is totally depressing to see this behavior because it shows that a large percentage of the motoring population just don't have a "f@@king" clue what to do ....

During the entire journey I only saw 1 police car, which was attending an accident. In these sort of ' ' conditions we need real life police patrols out there looking for these 'none-illuminated" toss pots, stopping them and giving them some strong advice about see and be seen ....

Sorry this is a rant, but there are just too many idiots out there going undetected .... !

I totally agree!!!!!

That and thoses idiots who think "it's raining better put the fog lights on!!!"

+1

...but in Belgium it's the greens and the 2-wheelers holding it back

Reason: the 2-wheelers won't be noticed anymore (so? maybe they will watch out then ) and the cars will use more fuel (oh yeah, like how much? 0.01 litres in 5000 kms? )

avtur wrote:

I've just spent nearly the entire week away from home working on site at Prestwick Airport. I'm based at home which is just south of Manchester and my patch is the entire UK from Sumburgh, Shetland in the north to London in the southeast and Bristol in the south west; so the bottom line is I travel a few miles by car ......

This afternoon/evening I have driven home from Prestwick, a journey of about 240 miles. The weather was absolute ' :censored: ' all the way. Why oh f@@king why can't people turn their lights on in bad weather? The average 'British' motorist seems to be totally unwilling to turn his/her lights on when the weather turns to ' :censored: ' but I don't understand why.

You're on the motorway, there is a huge amount of spray and the only way you can see other vehicles is if they have dipped headlights on. What happens? well at least 50% of motorists don't understand see and "be seen" so they don't even think to turn their lights on.... It is totally depressing to see this behavior because it shows that a large percentage of the motoring population just don't have a "f@@king" clue what to do ....

During the entire journey I only saw 1 police car, which was attending an accident. In these sort of ' :censored: ' conditions we need real life police patrols out there looking for these 'none-illuminated" toss pots, stopping them and giving them some strong advice about see and be seen ....

Sorry this is a rant, but there are just too many idiots out there going undetected .... !

mack - excellent idea...

i notice the LR tends to be not so good at the auto light function. I think it waits wayy toooo long to turn the lights on.. my MINI was better at sensing the evening and turn the lights on just at the right time...

lrlr2 wrote:

:ms: mack - excellent idea...

i notice the LR tends to be not so good at the auto light function. I think it waits wayy toooo long to turn the lights on.. my MINI was better at sensing the evening and turn the lights on just at the right time...

KL good - been here 7 months .. been travl'n a bit exploring...