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| Thread ID: 120590 | 2011-09-15 21:31:00 | Do You Flash Your Headlights. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1231444 | 2011-09-15 21:31:00 | Do you flash your headlights at on coming cars if you pass a speed camera or police car parked on the side of the road. Read here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) I use too but don't anymore as someone who is breaking the speed limit deserve to get a ticket. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1231445 | 2011-09-15 21:46:00 | If the cop/van is hidden I will. Between Nelson and Chch a lot of people do it, truckies too. Do generally keep an eye out for cops when I'm going to flash the lights though, can definitely see that ending in a fine. I got a fine for 'not complying with an orange traffic signal' a while back. Absolute bull, I was through the intersection before the light turned red. Only time I've actually been angry at a cop. He was ready to try and do me for insecure load too cause I had a chainsaw and a few other bits just sitting on the back of the ute...calmed down though and all was good. $150 though! Bastard... :angry |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1231446 | 2011-09-15 22:05:00 | Unless the Police are prepared to stop every car with badly adjusted headlights or fog lights permanently on they are being dicks if they claim that a few milliseconds of high beam in daylight is "dazzling, confusing or distracting". Note that the guy in the paper was ticketed for having 1 light not working not for flashing. I tend to flash when there's no camera just to mess with turbo teenagers. I'll make sure there's no Police already chasing them :D |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1231447 | 2011-09-15 22:14:00 | Do you flash your headlights at on coming cars if you pass a speed camera or police car parked on the side of the road. Nope, but if I see someone traveling faster than they ought to be I flash them to make them think there is a cop further ahead in order to make them slow down. :devil |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1231448 | 2011-09-15 22:35:00 | Do you flash your headlights at on coming cars if you pass a speed camera or police car parked on the side of the road. Read here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) I use too but don't anymore as someone who is breaking the speed limit deserve to get a ticket. :) If it wasn't for the fact that so many speed cameras are set up as revenue gatherers and not really for safety I would get behind the police and what they are doing. I have been driving out to the coast a lot lately and it is lazy drivers cutting corners that are the biggest danger and what amuses me is that it is the slower drivers that do it. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1231449 | 2011-09-15 22:41:00 | The police are really cranking up their speeding tickets. I got done the other day at 4pm driving along with my mother (86) in the car along a straight road on the way into town. I got done for doing 60 in a 50k area. I was just going along with the rest of the traffic. NO warning - he just sat in his car and printed out a new fangled ticket. (it took ages) OK I was going too fast, but on a wide straight road it i shard to notice it. And I still they they should spend more time on genuine speedsters who drive very fast on purpose. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1231450 | 2011-09-15 22:52:00 | The police are really cranking up their speeding tickets. I got done the other day at 4pm driving along with my mother (86) in the car along a straight road on the way into town. I got done for doing 60 in a 50k area. I was just going along with the rest of the traffic. NO warning - he just sat in his car and printed out a new fangled ticket. (it took ages) OK I was going too fast, but on a wide straight road it i shard to notice it. And I still they they should spend more time on genuine speedsters who drive very fast on purpose. That is just blatant revenue gathering and they type of thing that does NOTHING to help road safety. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1231451 | 2011-09-15 23:00:00 | A nice post at Aardvark (forums) on this: www.interestingprojects.com | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1231452 | 2011-09-15 23:17:00 | The official line is that speed cameras are to slow people down (not to make them safer just to reduce the severity of the impact caused by dangerous driving) and flashing your headlights does more then something in the mail will ever do, and its immediate which should by rights have an immediate impact and save lives. We are doing everyone a favour by flashing our lights, saving lives, and the police seek to stop that as they are looking to raise funds. Whose side are they on?, Not mine, not yours, They are not in a role to protect and to serve, they are a tool for the machine to be used against us. ok, Getting a tad carried away. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1231453 | 2011-09-15 23:35:00 | I would like to flash my lights, but they don't seem to have any eeproms in there. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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