Road safety and correct driver behavior

[Harlequin]

ammonite:

TheAnswer:

[quote=\"Jennifer\"]
That explains it.

Some years ago, MIL drove the family's car to the mkt n kena dent by dunno-who. FIL did not talk to her for a few months hor. The ice was finally broken when FIL fell sick n needed MIL to cook porridge for him n take care of him.

Man ah :spank:

A few months?? So long??

If I am your MIL, after two weeks of this silent treatment, I will kick the car one more time and put his pillow and bolster in the car. If he loves the car so much he can marry the car and I will remarry a human.[/quote]Haha... Ammonite, LIKE!

[ngl2010]

Funz:

Men tend to be more particular about their cars than women.

Agree. DH did not understand why I don't care what car he wants to buy as long as it is still within our budget. He finally told me that he understands why I don't care. It is because I see cars like I see refridgerators :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[ngl2010]

ammonite:

TheAnswer:

[quote=\"Jennifer\"]
That explains it.

Some years ago, MIL drove the family's car to the mkt n kena dent by dunno-who. FIL did not talk to her for a few months hor. The ice was finally broken when FIL fell sick n needed MIL to cook porridge for him n take care of him.

Man ah :spank:

A few months?? So long??

If I am your MIL, after two weeks of this silent treatment, I will kick the car one more time and put his pillow and bolster in the car. If he loves the car so much he can marry the car and I will remarry a human.[/quote]Good idea! :idea:

[Jennifer]

Harlequin:

ammonite:

[quote=\"TheAnswer\"]A few months?? So long??

If I am your MIL, after two weeks of this silent treatment, I will kick the car one more time and put his pillow and bolster in the car. If he loves the car so much he can marry the car and I will remarry a human.

Haha... Ammonite, LIKE![/quote] :rotflmao: she belongs to the older generation

[cmm]

Harlequin:

keroppi:

I think that one's driving behaviour will somehow mellow with age. I tend to give myself a lot of time on the road to get to a place so this sort of made me a very patient driver. Like Funz, it's been many years since I last used my horn, tail-gated or high-beamed anyone (out of impatience).


Question: Why do drivers like to turn on their blinkers during heavy rainfall? Is it to signal that they are driving slowly or going to stop? I only switch on my headlights.

The blinkers is the hazard lights, it is to be used under any hazardous condition for other drivers, behind, in front, and beside you, to spot your presence.

SG is blessed with good weather, hence we rarely see hazard lights blinking. Drivers in winter countries are known to drive with their hazard lights on through out their journey, especially driving in heavy snow weather, or, worse, snow storm.

It's a good practice for safe driving.

Erm, this is actually a very dangerous practice. You are effectively disabling your signals, which are all the more crucial in bad weather when visibility is low. Other drivers need to know if you are changing lanes or if you are actually going to pull over. If your hazard lights are on throughout the journey, they won't be able to tell.

I read in a safety circular issued by the traffic police that it would suffice to turn on headlights, and fog lights in extreme bad weather, and leave your signal lights alone to do their job - signaling.

[ammonite]

Jennifer:

:rotflmao: she belongs to the older generation

After my grandmother was mistreated by her ILs overseas, she came back and had it out with my grandfather. :evil: But grandpa was contrite la and gave her good life after that. Cannot say anymore or my identity will bao... but I bet Wu Zetian will also secretly let the air out of the emperor's car tyres mah... and blame it on her enemy-concubine... :rotflmao:

cars = fridges! Now I finally see the light too! So for men, cars = thoroughbred horses, feline tigers and powerful elephants? :scratchhead: I must ponder upon this new wisdom.

[cmm]

ChiefKiasu:

Oh I will grieve alright, with the same level of intensity, but quite verbally :).

Here's what happened to my brand new Toyota some years ago. At 12pm, I drove it out of the dock gingerly and inched my way to my wife so she can enjoy the \"new car smell\" with me. Then after \"eating\" enough \"air\", we drove to Leisure Drome for dinner at 7pm. I selected a special lot with no cars beside me, and went through the motions of parking my baby so that she was perfectly aligned in the centre of the lot so that no one will have the excuse to slam their doors against my baby. Then we went in and enjoyed dinner. At 8:30pm I came out, looked for my car, but couldn't see it. I mean, there was a car there and it looked like a Toyota, but it has a huge dent on the front bumper and the right front lamp looked like an eyeball lolling out of its socket. Can't be my car.

But it was. Someone had backed into it when reversing, thinking that there was no car there. After all, there was no other car in that entire stretch of lots. So there I was :frustrated: , swearing, cursing and wringing my hands like Thor with thunderbolts shooting out from his posterior, until this beamer came around and the driver sheepishly popped out his head and admitted that he was the one that did it.

Moral of the story? The more you care about something, the more you problems you have with it. Much is said about people always meeting their destiny on the paths they take to avoid it. It is true. The incident pretty much changed my perspective to life.

Chief, u are very fortunate. Something similar happened to me some years back.

I was at my son's school to pick him up. After getting into my car, I went through his school bag to check for homework or notes from teachers as was my practice. All this while, my car was parked fully within a carpark lot, my engine was running but in Park mode, and I was looking down so I didn't see what was about to happen. Suddenly.....

BAM!!!

I felt the entire car shake and looked up in shock. I saw the big fat boot of a Volkswagen through my windshield that appeared to be too close for comfort.

I waited for the driver (a fellow mommy here to fetch her kiddo) to park her car properly and then alight. I asked her if she was alright. She nodded and asked rather brusquely \"So how do you want to settle?\" :shock:

I was about 5 mths pregnant that that time.

[Harlequin]

cmm:

Harlequin:

[quote=\"keroppi\"]I think that one's driving behaviour will somehow mellow with age. I tend to give myself a lot of time on the road to get to a place so this sort of made me a very patient driver. Like Funz, it's been many years since I last used my horn, tail-gated or high-beamed anyone (out of impatience).


Question: Why do drivers like to turn on their blinkers during heavy rainfall? Is it to signal that they are driving slowly or going to stop? I only switch on my headlights.

The blinkers is the hazard lights, it is to be used under any hazardous condition for other drivers, behind, in front, and beside you, to spot your presence.

SG is blessed with good weather, hence we rarely see hazard lights blinking. Drivers in winter countries are known to drive with their hazard lights on through out their journey, especially driving in heavy snow weather, or, worse, snow storm.

It's a good practice for safe driving.

Erm, this is actually a very dangerous practice. You are effectively disabling your signals, which are all the more crucial in bad weather when visibility is low. Other drivers need to know if you are changing lanes or if you are actually going to pull over. If your hazard lights are on throughout the journey, they won't be able to tell.

I read in a safety circular issued by the traffic police that it would suffice to turn on headlights, and fog lights in extreme bad weather, and leave your signal lights alone to do their job - signaling.[/quote]Really.... I have been doing that on my yearly winter vacation, from Japan, Canada, States, Swiss Alps and countries bordering the Swiss Alps... I do what others do....

Fog lights is not good enough for heavy snow weather, the thick snow veil dim the fog light beam.

[ChiefKiasu]

cmm:

Chief, u are very fortunate. Something similar happened to me some years back.


I was at my son's school to pick him up. After getting into my car, I went through his school bag to check for homework or notes from teachers as was my practice. All this while, my car was parked fully within a carpark lot, my engine was running but in Park mode, and I was looking down so I didn't see what was about to happen. Suddenly.....

BAM!!!

I felt the entire car shake and looked up in shock. I saw the big fat boot of a Volkswagen through my windshield that appeared to be too close for comfort.

I waited for the driver (a fellow mommy here to fetch her kiddo) to park her car properly and then alight. I asked her if she was alright. She nodded and asked rather brusquely \"So how do you want to settle?\" :shock:

I was about 5 mths pregnant that that time.

Yuh... that's why I'm not sure whether I should classify that incident as being \"suay\" or \"lucky\". That beamer guy could have just drove off and I would have been none the wiser. At least he stayed behind, was very apologetic, and paid for the $2500 damage to my car. A real gentleman, that guy.

Clearly, the driver in your case can afford to pay for YOUR damage. But no, it doesn't make it less painful or insulting. You should charge her also for your lost time and medical bills (have to see the psychiatrist for shock, need to rent car while your car is being repaired, etc).

[cmm]

ChiefKiasu:

Clearly, the driver in your case can afford to pay for YOUR damage. But no, it doesn't make it less painful or insulting. You should charge her also for your lost time and medical bills (have to see the psychiatrist for shock, need to rent car while your car is being repaired, etc).

Well, I was made to send my car to her father's friend's workshop and drive her father's car as courtesy car while my car was in the workshop. :skeptical:

I had filled up the no injury accident form at the scene and got her to sign, which she flatly refused. So I carried on a discussion with her then that how can I have the assurance that she'll pay for the damage? She said that I should just trust that she would as her son was in the same school. :skeptical:

I felt that I can't just take her word for it, I don't know her at all, so our discussion went on for a bit before we went on our way. She had been utterly uncooperative throughout. Subsequently, her husband called up and accused me (a visibly 5 month pregnant woman) of restraining his wife at the scene and refusing to let her leave. :slapshead: