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Why do some people drive with thier emergency flashers on when it's snowing?

Four ways flashing here in bad weather means that vehicle is moving below the posted speed limit.
Driving in snow and ice is not a problem, it's the stopping part.
 
69a100 said:
Sounds good to me. They just don't want some careless driver driving up their *** in bad conditions. Sometimes you have to think outside the box, I see that here!
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Been doing it for years! It all about visibility. You noticed it right? There you go!
 
IMHO, there is a lot of truth to what most have said so far.

When snow hits, there are two types of problem drivers:
(1) The people who freak out at the snow and drive 5 miles an hour, clogging up traffic and often getting stuck because they don't understand the dynamics of handling a car with slippery conditions.
(2) The nuts who are overconfident (often with a jacked up wheel drive) and drive like a maniac.

Of course, the right way is to drive confidently, but prudently in the snow. Stopping distances must be extended, curves have to be taken more slowly, and overall speed must be adjusted for conditions. Snow is actually very predicable. Here is our area, we can get icing conditions which can be really nasty.

I would rather have someone put on their hazards if they are driving much more slowly than normal traffic for the conditions. I will still be annoyed with them if they are driving 5 MPH when they don't have to though....
 
The 4-ways are one attention getter of someone that probably should have stayed home. Now the next time your driving in a storm or bad weather look to see how many women you pass that are on the cell phone telling someone how bad the weather is. Now that's irritating!
 
vitamin c said:
Now the next time your driving in a storm or bad weather look to see how many women you pass that are on the cell phone telling someone how bad the weather is.
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You can actually hear the conversations (from people in other cars) talking about how bad the weather is, while driving past them during a snow storm?
 
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I remember years ago, I had the family in my (OJ era) white bronco. We were up in North Carolina on the way to go skiing. We were driving on a two lane road,no traffic, when suddenly, I hit a patch of black ice. After going sideways a couple of times, I was able to get stopped and after checking my pants, I continued in four wheel drive at a greatly reduced speed.
I passed several cars abandoned in ditches along the way.
As I approached a series of downhill switchbacks, I noticed a pickup approaching from the rear at a high rate of speed. It was then that I put my four ways on to warn him to maybe slow down. As I made the first switchback, I looked upwards at the roadway and this yahoo was doing 360s downhill. No sympathy for him from me.
What amazes me is that northerners can apparently drive in snow and ice and then they get down here in Florida and can't drive in a little rain. It's not legal to use flashers while driving in the rain ,down here at least. Low beam headlights.
 
HYRDGOON said:
Simple answer. Those people shouldn't have left home in the first place THAT'S WHY!!!

They're willing to put other people at risk because they made the choice to venture out in weather that they aren't comfortable in and they LACK CONFIDENCE!

As someone who spends a LOT of time on the road this absolutely drives me nuts
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I guess you've never driven in the "Tule" fog of Central Ca. where it's so thick that you can't see your hood ornament when behind the wheel, and have to drive 50 mph? That's some scary $h!t right there big time!
 
69a100 said:
I guess you've never driven in the "Tule" fog of Central Ca. where it's so thick that you can't see your hood ornament when behind the wheel, and have to drive 50 mph? That's some scary $h!t right there big time!
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Tule' is "Pea Soup" thick. Very rarely we get the same conditions around here but, few and far between and it doesn't last all most all day...
 
dual fours said:
Driving in snow and ice is not a problem, it's the stopping part.
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Sometimes you never know where you’ll end up …:lol:
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I can see using them in fog as it's hard to see tail lights until it is too late. Where I live some of the semi drivers figure dropping 2 gears constitutes an emergency, I find it annoying. They should be used in the case of an emergency (like when you spot a vehicle crossways in the road) not just for the hell of it. A lot of people have no idea what they're driving on and that's why these panic attacks come in I guess.
 
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Every time I see the stupidity I start saying out loud "hit me.. hit me.. hit me" as they blink on and off. That and the stupid things blind the vision that you had....
 
I think what everyone is missing from Pop's original post is the minivan is along side another vehicle and refuses to either pass or fall in behind the other vehicle. I understand if you unknowingly wind up in bad weather but get the f**k to the right and let those who grew up driving in winter conditions past!!!!.
 
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I'll admit. I don't drive with my hazzards on. However, I always drive like a sixteen year old kid in the snow though. Always playing Dukes Of Hazzard in a snow storm.
 
It does kind of annoy me, but nearly as bad as driving beside another vehicle and not overtaking or falling behind in the slow lane. I’m not the jack-*** going 70mph on slick roads but **** I got places to go!
 
They changed it here in florida. It used to be illegal driving with flashers on. But now only if driving 55 or faster is legal with the flashers on. Below 55 you need to be pulled over and stopped. I had to check. Different laws in different states. And we're supposed to be the United States? Should be the Ununited States! Everything is getting worse.
 
69a100 said:
I guess you've never driven in the "Tule" fog of Central Ca. where it's so thick that you can't see your hood ornament when behind the wheel, and have to drive 50 mph? That's some scary $h!t right there big time!
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Yea I've done that and your it's some scary ****, if you don't know the 99 and don't know where it's safe to get off it sucks.
 
Dense fog is always the scariest ****, to me. Right behind that is driving in blizzard conditions. We don't get actual blizzards often here, but in 2009 on Christmas Eve, we got a doosy! Winds sustained at 65 mph out of the North with blowing snow. My wife's work wanted her to come in at 4pm and work til midnight. She said "no" but her supervisor insisted. I told her she wasn't driving in that crap, so I drove her. Got halfway there and decided to stop for gas. It took a huge effort just to open the door! Filled up, as I didn't know if everything was going to end up closed (it was!). Got in the truck, and two cars and a truck came through the intersection with their brakes locked up, doing 360s and being stupid. I told my wife "**** this!" and we turned around for home. One hour to drive three miles! There were so many vehicles in the ditches. She called her work, they got upset, of course. Funny thing is that the employees that showed up ended up staying overnight in the store. There were six-foot drifts in the parking lots, and we never get that kind of blowing snow.

The forecast for Christmas Eve this year is much the same. Should be fun! The nice thing is I don't have to go to work from Wednesday on, through NYD!
 
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