On 2/15/2016 2:57 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:52:31 -0000, SeaNymph
wrote:

On 2/15/2016 2:43 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:37:27 -0000, SeaNymph
wrote:

On 2/15/2016 2:23 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:19:20 -0000, SeaNymph

wrote:

On 2/15/2016 1:09 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 04:22:41 -0000, wrote:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 21:32:25 -0000, "Mr Macaw" wrote:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 21:29:37 -0000, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 2/13/2016 3:49 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

Again, why do you want the front of cars lit up but not the
back?
Pretty obvious to anyone who actually drives. The front of
the
car
is comming towards you

On the other side of the road, it's far easier to hit the
back of
another car than one going the other way on the wrong side.

at the combined speed of the car approaching
and your car. He's doing 100kph and you are doing 90, the
closing
speed is 190kph.,

Oh no, you don't actually believe that do you? Answer this
simple
question:

Situation 1: You drive at 50mph into a brick wall.
Situation 2: You drive at 50mph into another identical car
going at
50mph the other way.

WTF does that have to do with closing speed? He never said
anything
about damage, but closing speed has a lot to do with time to
evade an
accident. I thought you were smarter than that Harry.

She wasn't clear what she meant by it. But most people use
closing
speed when talking about damage.
I think "harry" Macaw is taking the crazy position he is taking
figuring he can out- mart or out argue or whatever a "woman".....

Nobody can out-mart a woman. Women are brilliant at shopping.

And closing speed, past a certain very limited point, and damage,
become pretty well irrelevant as dead is dead - and totally
destroyed
is totally destroyed.

So why did you bring up the fact that cars coming the other way have
more closing speed if you think it's irrelevant?

The best way to survive a collision is to avoid it.
The best way to avoid it is to see and be seen.
The BE SEEN is the part very effectively affected by
"daylighting". As
a rallye driver in the past, "daylighting" was one of the safety
precautions we ALL took - long before DRLs became mandatory, or
even
common.

To be seen you do NOT require as much light as to see. Bright
lights to
illuminate your surroundings, dim lights to mark the position of
your
vehicle for others to notice you. A bright light means they can no
longer see your vehicle, just lights, this makes it harder to judge
your
speed, width, and distance. And no lights are necessary if the
surrounding daylight is reasonable - if your eyes cannot pick up an
object using the light reflected off it, you should seek immediate
help
from an optician.

One of the problems with all that talk about lights is that the older
you get, the less light your eyes absorb.

What is the average age of the driving population?

And do you think OAPs drive as much as working people?

Well, according to the link, the largest demographic of drivers is
persons 45-49, with virtually equal numbers of male and female drivers.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinfor...8/chapter4.cfm

So not people with **** eyesight then.

I didn't say anything about old people. I said that as you get older,
the less light your eyes can absorb.

As you get older you become an old people. Anyway I'm 40 and I can see
just as well as a teenager (optician says so, and I can see things
without lights on them just as easily, if not easier than those with DRL
crap).

LOL
Well, that's fine.


OAP = Old Age Pensioner? Never heard that one before.

It's a common acronym in the UK.

I figured as much once I figured out what it was.

What do you guys call them?

I think they're just referred to as retirees.


I have no idea who
drives more. Non workers have more time to run around though, I would
think.

Yes but they only run around when they want to, workers have to drive
twice a day.

And what if all they want to do is run around? Maybe they like driving
and have all the time in the world to do it g

That explains why the *******s stick to the ****ing sped limit and get
in my way!

I'm wondering if you're making an assumption about who drives more, or
if there's some statistic about it. Not that I really care, but in my
house, I drive more and I don't work.

We live pretty close to where my husband works. Since I do all the
shopping, I tend to drive much more in a week than he does. He has a 5
year old vehicle and it has less than 40,000 miles on it.